On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:05 +0100, Felix Schwarz wrote: > 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? > You won't really be able to do an install of software to another path as non-root. There are a lot of things that will require root - like ownerships on files, for example. You should look at the 'mock' program https://fedorahosted.org/mock/ it uses yum to make chroots. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
