Bug 848511

Summary: --root option does nothing
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Vladimir Benes <vbenes>
Component: PackageKitAssignee: Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.0   
Target Milestone: beta   
Target Release: 7.0   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Vladimir Benes 2012-08-15 19:30:20 UTC
Description of problem:
when executing pkcon install --root=/usr/local mc it's installed in /usr as without that option at all 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
PackageKit-0.7.4-5.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.execute 'pkcon --root '/usr/local' install mc 

  
Actual results:
installed in /usr root 

Expected results:
installed in /usr/local 

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Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2012-11-01 10:05:55 UTC
This is fixed by:

commit 5fa53b8cda8082a2cab4f5d5dc8134232bf32457
Author: Richard Hughes <richard>
Date:   Mon Jun 11 18:35:31 2012 +0100

    Remove Daemon.SetRoot(), nothing uses it

:100644 100644 d30e5c1... 4428206... M  client/pk-console.c