On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 08:37 -0800, bruce wrote: > hi... > > exactly what does this do??? > > google doesn't give any good insight... > > i have a server where there's not alot of room/space on the default '/' dir > structure... i'd like to be able to have yum install the FC3 files to > another dir... > > is this the function of --installdir ???? > > when i set --installdir up.. and ran 'yum --installdir=/foo upgrade' i got > an err stating that there was no /foo/var/yum.log file... which i would > suspect to have been written by the yum app... there's no --installdir option in yum. there's --installroot, but not --installdir. --installroot is for dealing with chrooted installation. If you don't know what a chrooted installation is then you probably don't have one. -sv
