On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen <fed...@cygwin.de> wrote:
> On Jan 10 13:31, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > > On 01/10/2014 10:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >On Jan 9 15:43, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > > >>Hello, > > >> > > >>New DNF release is out. See the blog [1], the release notes [2] and > > >>the F20 update [3]. Rawhide build went smooth this time too! > > > > > >I just had an interesting effect. I neglected to run `dnf install' as > > >root, but instead ran it under my normal user account. dnf happily > > >downloaded all files, then asked me to accept a PGP key, which > > >understandably failed when trying to install the key. But even without > > >the key problem, it would also have failed to install the rpms. > > > > > >So I'm wondering, why did it download the files anyway and then only > > >failed afterwards, rather than to tell me "you must be root to install" > > >right at the start? That would have been a bit more user friendly, > > >I think. > > > > > > > > >Thanks, > > >Corinna > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > you're running into another thing that we widely debated in the past: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038504 > > > > Short summary is: we are going to provide a plugin that does just > > what you describe. > > Thanks for the URL. Is there some hope justified that the plugin will > be enabled by default at one point? How did yum manage that without > plugin? > > > Thanks, > Corinna > -- > I think yum gets passed it by requiring the user to be root
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