On 06/17/2010 12:13 PM, sivakumar wrote:
Yum does support a --installroot option which you can use to installMy guess one would not be able to use yum without root permissions. To
packages into a chroot which might be some location under your home
folder. Maintaining a clean chroot like that wastes a lot of space
however.
my belief yum needs permissions to update the repo data, hence it might
fail. which means we might need yum itself in a different location which
will not depend on files which are on /etc, /var, etc.