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

[Alan Milligan]

>
> 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.
Ah, so the real culprit is mock - it should now be writing it's 
'yum.conf' option to the chroot's /etc/yum/yum.conf ...

Alan