[Yum] yum --installroot error

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 15:28 +1000, Mark Huth wrote:
> Hi, 
> I not sure if I am doing something wrong or it is a bug, but
> when I run yum with installroot I get this error:
> 
> yum --installroot=/mnt/devel check-update
> Config Error: Insufficient repository configuration. No
> repositories Found/Enabled. Aborting.
> 
> When I run it using strace I saw the following output:
> 
> stat64("/mnt/devel/mnt/devel/etc/yum.repos.d", 0xbfffe950) =
> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> write(2, "Config Error: Insufficient repository configuration.
> No repositories Found/Enabled. Aborting.\n", 94) = 94
> 
> When I put this link in: /mnt/devel/mnt/devel -> /mnt/devel I
> didn't get the error, but I'm sure this shouldn't be the way
> to get this to work.  A bug?

What ver of yum?

yum --version

if it's 2.1.11 - get 2.1.12 and see if that fixes it.
-sv