On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Erming Pei <erming@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi James, > > I tried with --installroot, and it's not what I want. For example, > #yum --installroot=/opt install Soft_pkgs > #ls /opt > cache/ lib/ ... > (all yum stuff, not the software I needed.) Short answer, you can't. Long answer, --installroot is particularly useful if you want to create/work on an alternate root installation, e.g. when rescuing a broken system, or installing an OS template for a VPS. If you want to move the binary location of some (not all) packages (e.g. move bash from /bin/bash to /opt/bash/bin/bash), then you can't do that with yum and normal distro-provided rpm. You need to create a special rpm for that. See http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-reloc-building-relocatable.html -- Fajar > > Thanks, > > Erming > > > > On 6/22/11 9:31 AM, James Antill wrote: >> >> Erming Pei<erming@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does anyone know about that how to specify root directory for yum >>> installation? >>> I tried with putting $_prefix in .rpmmacros, but it doesn't work. >>> And yum --installroot option seems not the solution too. >> >> --installroot does specify the _root_ directory. If you want to >> specify the --prefix, you can't do that. >> _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
