Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: >On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:23 -0500, Chris Betti wrote: > > >>Another idea I had was running Yum remotely. For example, running Yum on >>a modern system with plenty of resources but telling it to calculate >>everything based on the old system. Is this feasible, perhaps with some >>work? Is Yum's code modular enough that it can serve information from >>the old system to the new system for dependency processing and XML >>processing with just a little work? >> >> > >You could mount the remote system's root via NFS/CIFS and use >--installroot, but only if the systems use the same metadata format >(rpmmd vs. yum-arch), and if you don't mind possibly opening security >holes in your network. > > > I read about --installroot. I understand it to set yum's view of a system's root folder to whatever you like. I have two questions about this: 1. The two systems are different (an Athlon XP vs a Pentium 1). Will Yum know to configure installations for the old system and not the new one? 2. How will Yum know if a dependency is installed? (is this info stored in Yum's data files accessible over the NFS share?) Thank you for your response. - Chris
