[Yum-devel] update rpms that are not installed

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 19:19 -0800, esammons-lists at hush.com wrote:
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> Finally got a chance to try it... but no luck...
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> # rpm -q yum
> yum-2.1.13-1
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> # mkdir -p /tmp/foo
> # rm -f /tmp/foo/*
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> # yum --installroot=/tmp/foo list available
> Setting up Repos
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
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> Hmmm....  Is that what you ment?

well that's just b/c it can't resolve out repo sdtrings with $releasever
in them when you don't have a distroverPkg to resolve out.



> One idea I had was to set up a temp rpm db (barrowed this part..)
> 'rpm --initdb --dbpath ${TMP_D}'

what do you think installroot does?



> Anyone have a better mouse trap?

fix the baseurls I mentioned above.
do the --instalroot and do

yum --installroot=/my/special/crack install \*

and see what happens.

-sv