Complete chroot environment?

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:52:03 +0900
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:

> 20:49 [summer at numbat ~]$ yum --help | grep root
>    --installroot=[path]  set install root
> 20:50 [summer at numbat ~]$

That just does what it says - sets the root where yum will install.
As near as I can tell though, it doesn't convince yum update to download
the proper packages for the version and architecture  of the
linux located in that root. If it does, the documentation needs
more work :-).