[Revisor-users] revisor

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Unity)]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Unity) wrote:
>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Unity) wrote:
>>>> Now, your /etc/revisor/conf.d/revisor-centos5-i386.conf may have some
>>>> configuration directives set that cause the errors to occur. Could you
>>>> send us the details in that file?
>>> i attached.
>>>
>> OK, this clarifies the entire problem.
>>
>> Revisor (or actually, yum --installroot), does not expand all variables
>> the way it does running normally on any given system. The configuration
>> file will need to have $basearch and $releasever replaced.
> 
> ohh, i was dump, sorry for that. but anyway:
> - the logfile path is still a bug imho.

A ticket has been created. [1]

It had been solved before, but for some reason, the changes got lost.
I've reimplemented the fix.

> - in this case it'd be very useful if revisor show the wrong url or some
> kind of help what's the problem.

Agreed.

> - and why revisor should have to run as root? [...]

If you'll take a look into what Revisor actually does (open up the
source code) it'll become clear that Revisor will need to run as a
privileged user. Certain actions at this moment cannot be performed in
user-space.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
- kanarip

[1] Trac Ticket #37
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/revisor/ticket/37