Hi,I try to install some packages completely separated from my normal rpmdb/yum setup (just install them in a separate root directory). Ideally this should be possible without being root.
So I initialized a new rpmdb using 'rpm --initdb --root /home/fs/bar'. Then I put a yum.conf in the bar directory, pointing to a separate yum.repos.d (using the 'reposdir' directive).
I hoped that 'yum --installroot=/home/fs/bar -c yum.conf install <pkg>' would actually install a package locally but yum only says:'Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: foobar. Please verify its path and try again'.
When I add a new repository config to fedora, yum will automatically download repomd.xml from the server. So what am I doing wrong?
fsPS: It looks to me that yum checks that the user has uid 0 for some commands. I did not found a way to disable this check. Did I overlook something?
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