On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote on the rpm-python-list: > > This is what I do whenever I want to upgrade my toolchain (stuff that > > isn't terribly safe to update on a live system). > > yum --installroot=/some/path groupinstall Core > > that will get you most of the way there for chroot installs Knowing that yum-1.x is not interesting beyond a maintenance mode to seth, I took a run at backporting the '--installroot=' option. There were not too many edits, but the code reorganization for yum-2 into rpmUtils.py was beyond my meager python skills. Knowing that I need to work on them, has anyone solved a backport of that option into yum-1.x ? -- Russ Herroled
