Re: Yum Extender

From: Matthew Miller (mattdm_at_mattdm.org)
Date: 04/29/05

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    On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:09:39PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
    > > You shouldn't have to go back and forth between user and root with
    > > regular yum either.
    > Really? I do.
    > Start yum and it complains that I'm not root

    But rather than totally switching to root, do "sudo yum whatever". (And
    configure sudo properly, of course.) This is effectively what yumex is
    doing, although it does it via consolehelper instead of sudo. You could even
    make yum use consolehelper if you really wanted.

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