Re: [CentOS] yum install to a portable location

2014-06-12 Thread Robert Stuart
Hi Dan, Chroot gets you a space that looks like it is a separate system. Given this is R, I assume you are probably wanting this for HPC like purposes... Could I suggest building your own version of R and installing into a nfs area? You may also wish to investigate the facilities provided by

[CentOS] yum install to a portable location

2014-06-11 Thread Dan Hyatt
I have googled, read the man page, and such. What I am trying to do is install applications to a NFS mounted drive, where the libraries and everything are locally installed on that filesystem so that it is portable across servers (I have over 100 servers which each need specific applications

Re: [CentOS] yum install to a portable location

2014-06-11 Thread Andrew Holway
Can you use chroot? On 11 June 2014 18:26, Dan Hyatt dhy...@dsgmail.wustl.edu wrote: I have googled, read the man page, and such. What I am trying to do is install applications to a NFS mounted drive, where the libraries and everything are locally installed on that filesystem so that it is

Re: [CentOS] yum install to a portable location

2014-06-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Dan Hyatt dhy...@dsgmail.wustl.edu wrote: I have googled, read the man page, and such. What I am trying to do is install applications to a NFS mounted drive, where the libraries and everything are locally installed on that filesystem so that it is portable

Re: [CentOS] yum install to a portable location

2014-06-11 Thread Dan Hyatt
What will chroot get me. I have root on the server, I have a filesystem mounted on all server. What I want to do is contain the binaries and dependancies on the nfs filesystem On 6/11/2014 11:30 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: Can you use chroot? On 11 June 2014 18:26, Dan Hyatt