Re: Using YUM as non-root user

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Michael Lasevich wrote:

> I am aware of the relocations limitation and my packages are build with 
> support for that - as I said, it works fine with command line rpm.
>
> The reason "installroot" option does not work is because it relies on chroot, 
> which obviously is not an option for me as it is not allowed for non-root 
> users.
>
> So, can you point me to the place in yum code that the rpm api is called? I 
> want to see if I can pass prefix param via that.

it's not A place - you want to define the prefix macro.

it'll be something like rpm.addMacro(.....) - but I'm not sure what the 
prefix macro is. ask on the rpm-list.


-sv