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

[Klingaman, Aaron L]

That explains the behaviour I'm seeing, thanks!

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> [mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of seth vidal
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:55 PM
> To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
> Subject: Re: [Yum] quick question about install root and 
> yum.conf location
> 
> 
> 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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