Re: Using YUM as non-root user

Thanks.

After looking through the code at the TransactionSet api, I understand 
what you meant by "not a place". I was hoping it would be calling the 
same methods as the rpm binary, but it looks like the python RPM api is 
lacking the support for relocations. I looked at the macros, but could 
not find anything relevant ("_prefix" macro does not appear to be it)

Too bad, looks like I am going to have to abandon this.

-Michael


Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
>