Bug 973510

Summary: should give root user required error before resolving dependencies
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Parag Nemade <pnemade>
Component: dnfAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Parag Nemade 2013-06-12 05:32:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
When yum used as a normal user
$ yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
You need to be root to perform this command.

But, when dnf used as a normal user
$ dnf update --enablerepo=updates-testing
Setting up Upgrade Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Starting dependency resolution
.....
<Snip>
.....
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Unable to initialize yumdb history: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//var/lib/dnf'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0.3.7-1.gitf8bdc98.fc19

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
dnf command is not checking for admin user status and performs Resolving Dependencies


Expected results:
dnf should check if the user requesting is non-root and then accordingly error and quit

Additional info:
Comment 1 Zdeněk Pavlas 2013-06-12 07:48:04 UTC 
Yep, this got merged by mistake:

commit b98716756f0f6e79223c605582109da4adb93b9d
Author: Ales Kozumplik <akozumpl>
Date:   Tue Feb 28 10:06:39 2012 +0100

    we are experimenting so do not check for root
    
    :nomerge
Comment 2 Ales Kozumplik 2013-06-18 07:56:44 UTC 
no, the :nomerge comment just means this shouldn't be merged back to yum.

Parag, not checking for root is on purpose, see bug 910133 and the discussion there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 910133 ***