Not enough info, so no point

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On 06/03/2011 05:09 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> JD writes:
>
>> A user process (such as yum), even with root privs,
>> CANNOT JUMP OUT OF THE BOUNDARIES OF IT'S ROOT,
>> NAMELY (for example) /mnt/f15
>
> Umm, that's not true. The chroot(2) man page has a nice explanation of
> how a root userid can trivially escape a chroot jail.
>
>> So there is no danger that yum executed within a chrooted environment
>> will affect the enclosing host's yum database (in this case F14).
>
> Nope, that's definitely possible.
>
My caution maybe well founded, so I will have to do some experimenting 
first.

Thanks for the feedback folks.