[Ilugc] Yum without Root Permission

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/17/2010 12:13 PM, sivakumar wrote:
>> Yum does support a --installroot option which you can use to install
>> 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 guess one would not be able to use yum without root permissions. To
> 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.
>   

Err,  avoid guessing.  I know this method works because we use it
extensively in Fedora to actually build packages using a system called Mock

Rahul