Q:

Yum install in chroot directory

I'm trying to install the Base group on a mounted volume.
Here's the custom yum.conf that I'm using:
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exclude=*-debuginfo
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=0
reposdir=/dev/null

[base]
name=Fedora 13 - i386
baseurl=file:///media/Fedora\ 13\ i386\ DVD/
enabled=1

[updates]
name=Fedora 13 - i386 - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/fedora/linux/updates/13/i386/
enabled=1

When I run
# yum -c yum.conf --installroot=mnt groupinstall Base

I would expect yum to install everything under mnt
But it keeps on saying:
[...]
Package irda-utils-0.9.18-10.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Package time-1.7-37.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version
Package man-pages-3.23-6.fc13.noarch already installed and latest version
Package talk-0.17-33.2.4.i686 already installed and latest version
Package pam_passwdqc-1.0.5-6.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
[...]

I tried
rpm --base=mnt --initdb

and then use rpm to install fedora-release (which worked and installed the package under /mnt)
But yum keeps on saying that all packages are installed.
Any ideas?...

A:

sorted.
mnt must be an absolute path rather than relative (which I was using). 
replaced:
--installroot=mnt

with
--installroot=/full/path/mnt

and all's good now.

