On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:32 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, all the paths in yum are hardcoded into the source files > (/usr/share/yum-cli, /etc/yum.conf, etc.). It would be nice if these > could be changed at build time to support an installation not to /usr. > > Would you be interested in having this functionality? I got about > halfway through a patch and then decided I should ask in case it has > no chance of being applied. The method I'm using is pretty simple. > There's a top-level config.mk that has the prefix/bindir type > variables and a substitution function. Any files containing pathnames > have been moved to *.in files and then run through the sed > substitution to get the final files. > > The reason I'm interested in this is for the purposes of bootstrapping > a system. I'd like to use a yum with an alternate prefix that won't > conflict with the real (to be installed) yum. > > Any interest? Thanks. > Not very likely to be applied, but thanks for asking. It's pretty far out on the edge as a case and if you want to run a local/special instance of yum you don't have to install it. Just run it from the source dir: PYTHONPATH=`pwd` ./yummain.py command arg arg -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
