On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:41 AM, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
IE, I've got a drive from a separate/older system that I'd
like to
mount/examine to see what packages where installed with yum on that
drive...
the "installroot" switch appears to be used to chroot into a separate
location for the yum.repos.d" - but I could be wrong..
You can use rpm directly for simplicity:
% rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-20-1.noarch
% sudo mount /dev/mapper/fedora-f19-root /mnt/f19
% rpm --root=/mnt/f19 -q fedora-release
fedora-release-19-4.noarch
`yum --installroot` should work similarly.
-T.C.