Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 432889
yumdownloader tries/fails to update mirrorlist.txt when run as non-root
Last modified: 2014-01-21 01:10:28 EST
yumdownloader has issues in a case where it is run as non-root, mirrorlists are in use, and metadata_expire has passed. For purposes of testing, I've set metadata_expire to 1 in /etc/yum.conf. $ ls -la /var/cache/yum/development/ total 30788 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-02-15 00:19 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-02-15 00:12 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-02-15 00:19 cachecookie -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1352 2008-02-15 00:19 mirrorlist.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-15 00:12 packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31462400 2008-02-15 00:13 primary.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2142 2008-02-14 13:00 repomd.xml $ yumdownloader --enablerepo=development taglib.x86_64 Cannot write to file ./taglib-1.5-0.9.rc1.fc9.x86_64.rpm. Error was: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//var/cache/yum/development/mirrorlist.txt' If using baseurl instead of mirrorlist in the repo config, this problem doesn't manifest itself.
Oops, this is yum-utils-1.1.11-1.fc8.noarch on F8, not devel.
I can reproduce this issue, working on a way to get around it
I was not able to reproduce this: # rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* $ yumdownloader rsh --enablerepo=development Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Cannot handle specific enablerepo/disablerepo options. $ yumdownloader rsh Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Determining fastest mirrors rsh-0.17-44.fc8.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 43 kB 00:00 Using this (F8-GOLD): yum-3.2.7-1.fc8 yum-utils-1.1.8-1.fc8 yum-fastestmirror-1.1.8-1.fc8
Make sure you are indeed using a repo config that uses mirrorlists. And note this: > $ yumdownloader rsh --enablerepo=development > Loading "fastestmirror" plugin > Cannot handle specific enablerepo/disablerepo options. At least on F-9, the "development" repo does not exist, it has been renamed to "rawhide". I can still reproduce with these on F-9: yum-fastestmirror-1.1.14-4.fc9.noarch yum-3.2.17-2.fc9.noarch yum-utils-1.1.14-4.fc9.noarch yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-8.fc9.x86_64
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The error is still there with: yum-utils-1.1.17-1.fc9.noarch yum-3.2.19-3.fc9.noarch yum-fastestmirror-1.1.17-1.fc9.noarch yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-9.fc9.x86_64 Additionally, with previous metadata in /var/cache/yum/..., I also see this which I suppose is not related to mirror lists, so maybe the problem is deeper than that: $ yumdownloader --enablerepo=rawhide taglib.x86_64 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 293, in <module> util = YumDownloader() File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 42, in __init__ self.main() File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 75, in main self.doUtilYumSetup(opts) File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 252, in doUtilYumSetup self._getSacks(archlist=archlist) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 434, in _getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 251, in populateSack sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 159, in populate if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 216, in _check_db_version return repo._check_db_version(mdtype) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 958, in _check_db_version repoXML = self.repoXML File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1116, in <lambda> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(), File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1108, in _getRepoXML self._loadRepoXML(text=self) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1098, in _loadRepoXML return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, ["primary"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1082, in _groupLoadRepoXML if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 931, in _commonLoadRepoXML self._saveOldRepoXML(local) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 836, in _saveOldRepoXML shutil.copy2(local, old_local) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/shutil.py", line 91, in copy2 copyfile(src, dst) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/shutil.py", line 47, in copyfile fdst = open(dst, 'wb') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//var/cache/yum/rawhide/repomd.xml.old.tmp'
This one should fix the issue http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=blob_plain;f=yumdownloader.py;hb=28c9a989cc9cebf6f74884510a61829766dc8d79
Yep, looks good, thanks.