Re: YUM > Running multiple instances

From: Bryn M. Reeves (breeves_at_redhat.com)
Date: 09/29/05

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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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