On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:13, R P Herrold wrote: > 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 ? hmm - you should just have to change the transaction set's root dir - shouldn't be more than a handful of edits, ultimately. Go back through the cvs archives, see where it was added - the original patch should make it much simpler looking. -sv
