[Yum] --installroot question

[skvidal at phy.duke.edu (seth vidal)]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 23:14 -0700, Andrew Schwerin wrote:
> My installroot conundrum is with yum Version 2.0.7 from the Fedora Core 
> 2 RPM yum-2.0.7-1.1.

hmm

I do:

mkdir /xtmp/foo
yum --installroot=/xtmp/foo install basesystem

and I get a:
/xtmp/foo/var/lib/rpm

created.

this is on fc2 with yum 2.0.7

can you try it again on a new dir?

thanks
-sv