Complete chroot environment?

[John Summerfield]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:52:03 +0900
> John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> 20:49 [summer at numbat ~]$ yum --help | grep root
>>    --installroot=[path]  set install root
>> 20:50 [summer at numbat ~]$
> 
> That just does what it says - sets the root where yum will install.
> As near as I can tell though, it doesn't convince yum update to download
> the proper packages for the version and architecture  of the
> linux located in that root. If it does, the documentation needs
> more work :-).
> 


It _should_ work. So far, I've not had the need, but the equivalent 
feature in rpm correctly maintains state in the specified root directory 
tree.

If it doesn't, I think it's worth a bug report. I'd not argue to hard 
whether it's a request for an enhancement or a "normal" bug where 
something doesn't work, but it seems to me a sensible solution to your 
problem.



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Cheers
John

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