Install in Specific Location

[manuel19]

Hi there,

I have installed Linux CentOS 6, I'm going to call this as Level1. So, that means, whenever I mention Level1 I mean the Operative System.
In Level1 I created the directory /opt/level2.

How can I make All the software install via; yum, rpm, tar ball, etc... Be installed inside Level2?

I mean, I want to use Level1 as the Operative System ONLY. As the Main Core. So, no applications will be installed in the default directories like /bin, /sbin, /var, etc...


I want to do that because In case I want to backup my server, I just need to Rsync the Level2 dir. (/opt/level2). Because that dir should have all my programs, all the things I installed, all configurations. etc...

How can I make all things be installed in /opt/level2 by default?


Thanks

[aks]

I think you can do this via the --installroot option being passed to yum.

If you want to build a chrooted CentOS system, have a look at: http://zaufi.github.io/administration/2 ... os-chroot/

[manuel19]

Thanks aks,

I found something similar to you post.

Here is the link http://geek.co.il/2010/03/14/how-to-bui ... for-centos

But Thanks

[TrevorH]

I think you'd be much better served by making sure that you only install things from packages and then keep a list of the packages that you have installed. That makes it easy to recreate your installed apps. Backing up your data is another matter but changing the install path of everything to one below the install root seems like a very strange thing to do.