[Yum] how to specify directory for yum installation

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Erming Pei <erming at ualberta.ca> wrote:
>  Hi James,
>
> I tried with --installroot, and it's not what I want. For example,
> #yum --installroot=/opt  install Soft_pkgs
> #ls /opt
>  cache/ lib/ ...
> (all yum stuff, not the software I needed.)

Short answer, you can't.

Long answer, --installroot is particularly useful if you want to
create/work on an alternate root installation, e.g. when rescuing a
broken system, or installing an OS template for a VPS. If you want to
move the binary location of some (not all) packages (e.g. move bash
from /bin/bash to /opt/bash/bin/bash), then you can't do that with yum
and normal distro-provided rpm. You need to create a special rpm for
that. See http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-reloc-building-relocatable.html

-- 
Fajar


>
> Thanks,
>
> Erming
>
>
>
> On 6/22/11 9:31 AM, James Antill wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>