On 11/23/2009 02:28 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Perhapin the light of the recent thread regarding users' permissions
> to install packages, I have a quick question : in Rawhide I typed
> accidentally (eg without leading sudo) the command 'yum clean all' as
> a simple user, and it worked. Is this intended, am I overlooking
> something, or...?
>
that cleans out the local user cache for yum.
yum in about 3.2.23 started making a user cache in
/var/tmp/yum-$username-randomchars and using that for when a user
wished to search/list/etc transactions.
so now yum clean all, invoked as a user, cleans out that cache.
-sv
Thanks, Seth, and sorry for the typo. :-)