[Yum-devel] --installroot behavioural change ...

[Tim Lauridsen]

Alan Milligan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the 3.0.x series of yum, the --installroot argument worked such 
> that it cd/chroot'ed to this dir and *then* looked for /etc/yum.conf.  
> In 3.1.6, it binds to /etc/yum.conf outside the installroot.
>
> This is a complete PITA when used with mock - my chroot is no longer 
> the sandbox I thought it was - someone's kicked over my castle!!
>
> Is this something that someone will restore, or should I now modify my 
> mock to pass yum -c??
>
> Alan
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I should work in the same ways in yum 3.1.x, but the problem is that the 
default yum.conf location has changed from /etc/yum.conf to 
/etc/yum/yum.conf, if you don't use an installroot, then yum will fall 
back to use /etc/yum.conf if /etc/yum/yum.conf is used.
But if you use an installroot it will check for 
'/your/install/root/etc/yum/yum.conf' and it not exist then 
/etc/yum.conf will be used.
It will try to make it work a little smarter.

Tim