On 06/17/2010 12:13 PM, sivakumar wrote: >> Yum does support a --installroot option which you can use to install >> packages into a chroot which might be some location under your home >> folder. Maintaining a clean chroot like that wastes a lot of space >> however. >> > My guess one would not be able to use yum without root permissions. To > my belief yum needs permissions to update the repo data, hence it might > fail. which means we might need yum itself in a different location which > will not depend on files which are on /etc, /var, etc. >
Err, avoid guessing. I know this method works because we use it extensively in Fedora to actually build packages using a system called Mock Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
