Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:43:22 +0900
John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would contemplate an alternative approach such as using xen or, if h/w
virtualisation is available. kvm.
Actually, the "stuff" I want to do is pretty limited. I mainly just
want to run "yum -y --downloadonly update" to get the alternate
boot partition's yum cache populated with updates which will be
there waiting to install when I boot for real. The mount --bind
gimmick earlier in this thread seems to work (according to my
experiments), now I just gotta get official scripts written and
installed in cron.
Then this might do.
20:49 [summer@numbat ~]$ yum --help | grep root
--installroot=[path] set install root
20:50 [summer@numbat ~]$
try (I often fail) to remember to define the problem and invite
solutions. chroot is one, but it might not be the best.
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Cheers
John
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