system-config-kickstart

[Kwan Lowe]

>> Just noticed that system-config-kickstart requires the root password to run. Is
>> there any reason for this? I.e., it doesn't touch the existing system, only
>> creates
>> a file for later installations on other maches.
>
> It was needed because s-c-kickstart uses yum to handle the packaging
> screen, reusing the code from pirut.  It needed to be root to write the
> yum cache files out.  However I have recently added a patch from Panu
> Matilainen that removes this requirement.  2.6.15-1 in rawhide contains
> this patch.  I'm planning on making an FC6 update, but I have some more
> urgent tasks to take care of first.  It's on the whiteboard so I won't
> forget.

Cool.. thanks.
BTW, I didn't see a BZ report for this, but it seems that the last few emails I've
sent already had entries. Are these entries in a different bug repository by any
chance?

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