[Yum] Using YUM as non-root user

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Michael Lasevich wrote:

> Ok, after messing a bit with the yum command-line  (mostly altering the 
> yum.conf config file and adding some code having to do with include paths - 
> which is probably configurable via env variables) I actually get it to run 
> fine as a regular user. It sees the repo in MY config, it sees the custom RPM 
> DB contents as per .rpmmacros file, and even fetches the rpm from repo, but I 
> run into a wall when it tries to install the rpm.
>
> The issue is that when I install it manually I have to specify prefix  (rpm 
> --prefix /mypath -Uhv), but yum is not specifying it, so it tries to install 
> to /bin instead of /mypath/bin, and obviously fails with "error: unpacking of 
> archive failed on file /bin/myfile;4a495646: cpio: mkdir" . Now, I tried 
> using installroot option, which SEEMS like the right thing, but is not. It 
> changed the locations of many paths in many places including default paths to 
> config files, and paths in .rpmmacros, (which is unfortunate as rpm itself 
> does not see the installroot parameter) but in the end, it is still 
> installing into /bin instead of /mypath/bin.
>
> So I assume I need to find where yum makes an API call to rpm libs and pass 
> prefix to it, but I cannot seem to find that place in the yum code. Can 
> someone point me to the right place to find it?
>

okay - AIUI - relocations only work when the pkg is built to allow itself 
to be relocated.


If you want to install it in another path - then that's changing the 
installroot which you can currently do in yum.

-sv