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Create empty chroot for RedHat

You have a RH/Centos and want to create some chroot or another root filesystem, for example to create a mySQL chroot environment:

ROOT=/mnt/newroot


VERSION=/path/to/redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.x86_64.rpm

mkdir "$ROOT/etc"


cp -r /etc/yum* "$ROOT/etc/"


rpm -ivh --nodeps --root "$ROOT" "$VERSION"


yum --installroot="$ROOT" makecache

Now you can install what you want:

yum --installroot="$ROOT" mysql-server

Then you can clone that using

mount -o bind /mnt/newroot/lib /mnt/mysql-chroot1/lib

and so on.

I have no complete scripts yet, sorry.