Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 150352
yum --installroot searches the normal root path for yum.repos.d/ if it does not exist in the specified installroot path.
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:51:15 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: In setting up an nfs root tree for a diskless cluster (warewulf) I use yum --installroot to specify the nfsroot path to which yum needs to install the system. It was found that yum.repos.d/ did not exist in my nfsroot path so yum searched the normal /etc/yum.repos.d/ path and found the repo configuration for the server. By creating the yum.repos.d dir in the installroot path yum no longer searched the normal path. So with no yum.repos.d path created yum is not properly processing the --installroot option. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.1.12-0.fc3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a basic root tree: mkdir -p /vnfs/dev/ mkdir -p /vnfs/etc/warewulf/ mkdir -p /vnfs/etc/warewulf/ mkdir -p /vnfs/var/lib/rpm rpm --initdb --dbpath /vnfs/var/lib/rpm 2. Create a yum.conf file in the /vnfs/etc/ dir: cat <<EOF >/vnfs/etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release exactarch=1 [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://192.168.0.8/~burnin/mirror/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 EOF 3. Attempt a yum install on the new root tree: yum --installroot /vnfs SysVinit Actual Results: The repos in the yum.conf from the installroot path will be setup as expected and yum will then try to setup any repos it finds in /etc/yum.repos.d/ Expected Results: yum should only setup repos which are found in the specified installroot path. If there is no yum.repos.d dir in the installroot path then it should not look further. Additional info:
1. it's intended behavior 2. it's not going to change 3. if you want yum to ignore the repos.d path just set: reposdir=/some/place/that/doesn/t/exist in your yum.conf in [main]