JD writes:

A user process (such as yum), even with root privs,
CANNOT JUMP OUT OF THE BOUNDARIES OF IT'S ROOT,
NAMELY (for example) /mnt/f15

Umm, that's not true. The chroot(2) man page has a nice explanation of how a root userid can trivially escape a chroot jail.

So there is no danger that yum executed within a chrooted environment
will affect the enclosing host's yum database (in this case F14).

Nope, that's definitely possible.

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