[Yum] Re: [Rpm-python-list] Re: Python 2.3.2

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:13, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote on the rpm-python-list:
> 
> > > This is what I do whenever I want to upgrade my toolchain (stuff that
> > > isn't terribly safe to update on a live system).
> > 
> > yum --installroot=/some/path groupinstall Core
> > 
> > that will get you most of the  way there for chroot installs
> 
> Knowing that yum-1.x is not interesting beyond a maintenance 
> mode to seth, I took a run at backporting the '--installroot=' 
> option.  There were not too many edits, but the code 
> reorganization for yum-2 into rpmUtils.py was beyond my meager 
> python skills.   Knowing that I need to work on them, has 
> anyone solved a backport of that option into yum-1.x ?

hmm - you should just have to change the transaction set's root dir -
shouldn't be more than a handful of edits, ultimately. Go back through
the cvs archives, see where it was added - the original patch should
make it much simpler looking.

-sv