YUM > Running multiple instances
Bryn M. Reeves
breeves at redhat.com
Thu Sep 29 13:13:29 UTC 2005
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Paul Howarth wrote:
> My comment is: it won't work because yum creates a lock file
> specifically to prevent this from happening.
>
> Paul.
>
Not actually true.
If you are running the secondary copies of yum as a non-privileged user,
then this works - for some values of 'works' ;-)
What I have observed is that during updates to the repository data,
non-privileged searches fail, either because of inconsistent metadata or
with some ugly python backtraces indicating problems accessing the db.
Once the root-owned yum finishes modifying the cache files, searches
work for non-privileged users as expected.
I don't know if doing this is a good idea, or even expected behaviour -
ymmv :-)
Cheers,
Bryn.
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