[Yum] --installroot behaviour has changed!

Matt Lawrence matt at technoronin.com
Wed Mar 2 01:55:52 UTC 2005


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, seth vidal wrote:

> you're getting an html 'missing' web page back from the url install. But
> instead of sending you a 404 message ,it's sending you actual content.
>
> it's probably b/c you're using $releasever in the baseurl and since
> there is no package that can be completed for that it's resolving to
> Null.

Ok, I'm now running /etc/yum.conf through sed and generating a local 
version.  Then by using the -c switch, things seem to be working.

Thanks for the quick response!  I guess now I'll be up late working on the 
rest of the project.

-- Matt
Nothing great was ever accomplished without _passion_




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