https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336353#c1 --- Comment #1 from Marcus Schaefer 2007-10-24 09:18:03 MST --- Comments from Jan Kupec: ------------------------ BTW, what about having --root to prepend the root to default paths for all the above dirs unless they are used themselves? --root $ROOT => --repos-dir $ROOT/etc/zypp/repos.d --cache-dir $ROOT/var/cache/zypp --raw-cache-dir $ROOT/var/cache/zypp/raw Currently --root $ROOT does not change these, it still reads metadata and .repo files from '/' but installs to $ROOT ===> great idea :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336353#c3 Ján Kupec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Info Provider|jkupec@novell.com |ma@novell.com --- Comment #3 from Ján Kupec 2007-10-24 09:57:31 MST --- Basically, you can specify ANY directory in those options, if you want zypper to look there for *.repo files, zypp.db file, etc... But if you just want zypper to operate completely (see the note below) on a different root, it will be just zypper --root /alternative/root/dir after i finish what's proposed in comment #1 (will be done on friday). It will then be equivalent to zypper --root /alternative/root/dir --reposd-dir /alternative/root/dir/etc/zypp/repos.d <...and so on...> That means, zypper will tell libzypp to do the following: - have .repo files in /alternative/root/dir/etc/zypp/repos.d - have zypp.db in /alternative/root/dir/var/cache/zypp - have raw cache in /alternative/root/dir/var/cache/zypp/raw - call RPM with --root=/alternative/root/dir - Michael, pls add what i missed :O) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336353#c5 Ján Kupec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #5 from Ján Kupec 2007-10-26 09:14:58 MST --- Thanx Michael, good to be aware of this. Comment #1 done. I suppose no change is needed in kiwi then, right? Closing the bug. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.