On Thu, 17 May 2007, seth vidal wrote:
1. What does this mean?
2. Can this error message be improved, maybe by adding instructions on
what to do?
you're running as non-root (caching mode, implicitly)
Actually, it's "from-cache mode", implicitly, IIUC. It doesn't cache
anything, but expects a full cache. As I noted a few times recently,
forcing from-cache mode when non-root creates other problems, e.g. in my
case, when running yumdownloader with an installroot.
and you don't have
a fully updated cache with the changelog information in it. So it is
complaining that it can't get the file it needs to return the data
you've requested - the changelog for glibc.
OK, that answers #1. What should I do to fix this?
run the command as root, it'll automatically grab the other.xml.gz that
it needs.
Would it be reasonable to have yum try to fill the cache in this
circumstance, rather than expect it to be full already? If the running
user cannot write to the cache, then that can be detected and reported.
If user needs to have a writable cache, he/she can do so via an
alternative configuration.
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