[Yum] quick question about install root and yum.conf location

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Oct 6 21:53:57 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 17:54, Klingaman, Aaron L wrote:
> If I specify --installroot=/newroot, what is the behaviour of yum in
> regards to finding a yum.conf file to use? Does it always uses
> /newroot/etc/yum.conf, or /etc/yum.conf (not in newroot). Does the -c
> option change this behaviour, and/or is the -c option relative to the
> new root (/newroot) or the root from which yum is being run?
> 

if it can find a yum.conf in /newroot/etc/yum.conf it will use it

otherwise it uses /etc/yum.conf


-sv





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