[Yum] how to specify directory for yum installation

[James Antill]

Erming Pei <erming at ualberta.ca> writes:

>  Hi,
>
>  Does anyone know about that how to specify root directory for yum
> installation?
> I tried with putting $_prefix in .rpmmacros, but it doesn't work.
>  And yum --installroot option seems not the solution too.

 --installroot does specify the _root_ directory. If you want to
specify the --prefix, you can't do that.

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James Antill -- james at and.org