[Yum] --installroot question

[Andrew Schwerin]

I have tried this again on a new directory.  Indeed, the var/lib/rpm 
directory is created and populated, but yum when executing creates 
files __db.00{1,2,3} and Packages in the --installroot directory, and 
appears to update those files and not the corresponding ones in 
var/lib/rpm.  I suspect this behavior comes from the __init__ method of 
class Rpm_Ts_Work in rpmUtil.py, but I don't have much understanding of 
the python rpm libraries.

-Andy

On Sep 19, 2004, at 11:18 PM, seth vidal wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 23:14 -0700, Andrew Schwerin wrote:
>> My installroot conundrum is with yum Version 2.0.7 from the Fedora 
>> Core
>> 2 RPM yum-2.0.7-1.1.
>
> hmm
>
> I do:
>
> mkdir /xtmp/foo
> yum --installroot=/xtmp/foo install basesystem
>
> and I get a:
> /xtmp/foo/var/lib/rpm
>
> created.
>
> this is on fc2 with yum 2.0.7
>
> can you try it again on a new dir?
>
> thanks
> -sv
>
>
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