Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (75 mails)

[Jan Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Andres wrote:
> ma@Fibonacci:~ $ rm -rf /tmp/rr
> ma@Fibonacci:~ $ zypper --root /tmp/rr sa 
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source
>
> Root privileges are required for modifying system repositories.
>
>
> Why should the above require Root privileges? Shouldn't we actually 
> check whether we are aloowed to read/write the directories?

Agreed :O) Me or Pepa will do it. I'm just wondering whether just 
checking for write access is all that is to it (maybe it is).

jano
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