id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
98	Unable to specify log location outside of %unixroot	Lewis Rosenthal		"On this machine, %unixroot is J:

Changing log location in yum.conf to systemwide log dir (c:/var/log) produces output from yum such as:

{{{
[j:\devel\yumie\yumie_preview7\scripts]yum info clamav
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, remove-with-leaves
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""J:\USR\BIN\YUM"", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py"", line 254, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py"", line 88, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py"", line 191, in getOptionsConfig
    self.conf
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py"", line 781, i
n <lambda>
    conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py"", line 311, i
n _getConfig
    self.doFileLogSetup(self.conf.uid, self.conf.logfile)
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py"", line 331, i
n doFileLogSetup
    logginglevels.setFileLog(uid, logfile)
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/logginglevels.py"", line 1
91, in setFileLog
    os.makedirs(logdir, mode=0755)
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py"", line 152, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py"", line 152, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py"", line 159, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/@unixrootc:'
}}}

I have not tried relocating the yum cache, but suspect similar difficulty."	defect	closed	minor		yum			duplicate