[CentOS] yum install to a portable location

[Dan Hyatt]

What will chroot get me.
I have root on the server, I have a filesystem mounted on all server.

What I want to do is contain the binaries and dependancies on the nfs 
filesystem
On 6/11/2014 11:30 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
> Can you use chroot?
>
>
> On 11 June 2014 18:26, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
>> I have googled, read the man page, and such.
>>
>> What I am trying to do is install applications to a NFS mounted drive,
>> where the libraries and everything are locally installed on that
>> filesystem so that it is portable across servers (I have over 100
>> servers which each need specific applications installed via yum and we
>> do not want to install 100 copies).
>>
>> We tried the yum relocate and it was not available on Centos6.4
>>
>> and
>> yum --nogpgcheck localinstall R-3.1.0-5.el6.x86_64
>>
>> I want the binaries and all dependencies in the application filesystem
>> which is remote mounted on all servers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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>>
>> Dan Hyatt
>>
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