rpm --root equivalent?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Vincent Danen wrote:

> Another question.  Is there a way to point apt to a chroot to do an
> install?  For instance, with rpm, you can use --root to point to a
> directory or other filesystem to make rpm install stuff in that
> directory rather than the "real" root.  urpmi can do the same thing (in
> fact, I use urpmi to do the whole system installation as a result).
>
> Can apt be coerced into doing the same thing somehow?  If not, then I
> have to keep urpmi (more's the pity) if for nothing else than the
> installer (and for building the installer).

Sure, you can use -o rpm::rootdir=/some/path from the command line or set 
it in configuration file.

BTW if you're dealing a lot with chroot environments you might want to 
have a look at mach: http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/

 	- Panu -