Bug 872517

Summary:	yum downloads metadata for user when not necessary
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	5.9	CC:	zpavlas
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Description Karel Srot 2012-11-02 10:07:52 UTC

Description of problem:

when yum is executed by regular user, yum downloads metadata even if the "root" metadata are up-to-date.


[root@server ~]# rpm -q yum
yum-3.2.22-40.el5
[root@server ~]# yum list bash
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Installed Packages
bash.i386                                         3.2-32.el5                                         installed
[root@server ~]# su - karel
[karel@server ~]$ yum list bash
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
beaker-client                                                                                           28/28
beaker-harness                                                                                          35/35
qa-tools                                                                                              193/193
rhel-5                                                                                              2518/2518
rhel-5-debug                                                                                        1022/1022
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Installed Packages
bash.i386                                         3.2-32.el5                                         installed


Probably fixed upstream with 
http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5e26a78e485

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5e26a78e485

Comment 1 James Antill 2012-11-02 15:02:17 UTC

 This is true for RHEL-6, but I'm pretty sure there's a huge difference between what is in RHEL-5 and what is upstream ... so the changes required for RHEL-5 might be much more significant.

Comment 2 Zdeněk Pavlas 2013-03-08 13:51:46 UTC

The upstream patch fixes breakage introduced when "prerepoconf" was merged, but that's not in EL5 code, so the cause is definitely different here (probably just a small bug, because preloading of metadata from system cache IS attemted here, too).  Given the low impact, I'm closing this bug.