Bug 872518

Summary:	yum downloads metadata for user when not necessary
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Patrik Kis <pkis>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.4	CC:	ddumas, pkis
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	yum-3.2.29-33.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clone Of:	872517	Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-02-21 10:12:59 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Karel Srot 2012-11-02 10:10:41 UTC

Present on RHEL6.3 too

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #872517 +++

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 2 Karel Srot 2012-11-02 15:12:13 UTC

Tried to manually patched my yum. It helped a bit. The output is not the same, 
probably the 3 lines that makes the difference exist because of creating sqlite db from xml.gz. Don't know why yum doesn't copy that from the "root" metadata.

patched yum:

# yum makecache
# yum list bash
Loaded plugins: security
Installed Packages
bash.x86_64           4.1.2-8.el6              @rhel6.2-server
Available Packages
bash.x86_64           4.1.2-9.el6_2            rhel63-server  

$ yum list bash
Loaded plugins: security
beaker-client                   14/14
google-talkplugin                 1/1
qa    193/193
Installed Packages
bash.x86_64           4.1.2-8.el6              @rhel6.2-server
Available Packages
bash.x86_64           4.1.2-9.el6_2            rhel63-server

Comment 3 James Antill 2012-11-02 15:21:42 UTC

 ACKing the patch, and that it should provide better behaviour (with no regressions) ... but I'm not saying it'll be perfect (Eg. we may still download things we don't really need to, lots of changes have happened upstream to mitigate this and hopefully RHEL-7 will be much better).

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 10:12:59 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0406.html