On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 02:06:42PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> > I dunno; what harm is there in giving the ability to use a separate >> > user cache for queries? This allows you to do things like repoquery as >> > an unprivileged user for repos that aren't enabled by default. >> I'm fine with a layered approach, *if* a repo db does not exist for >> root, then it's OK for a user copy to be downloaded, but how about one >> for all users to share rather than each user getting a downloaded copy >> of the same thing? > > How? Setuid downloader? Or make it world-writable? Seems sketchy.
Unprivileged writes for any user goes in /var/tmp/dnf rather than a user specific directory. And reads from any user or root include /var/tmp/dnf databases as well as /var/cache/dnf. > >> > Hmmmm. The `dnf -C` (or --cacheonly) flag does not seem to work as >> > documented. It says: > [...] >> Yep I've hit this also. > > Once this is fixed, I'm going to `alias dnf='dnf -c'` in my own user > account. Brilliant. That might just fix the whole thing. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
