Support managing system in a chroot (bsc#1199840)

[lslezak]

Problem

When running YaST in a container we need to somehow detect that YaST should manage the system mounted in the /mnt and not the container itself.

bsc#1199840

Details

Originally I wanted to detect that we are running in a container, but that's too specific. It should be more generic, in theory you could run YaST in a chroot or using a Live medium. Or you could manage the container itself, not the host system.

Solution

The target system needs to be set from the outside, YaST itself cannot detect that easily and reliably. The easiest way is to set an environment variable with the location of the mounted target system.

• Update the Installation module constructor to initialize destdir according to the current SCR chroot
• See related Support managing system in a chroot (bsc#1199840) yast-ruby-bindings#284

Testing

• Tested manually
• The change will be followed by updated yast2-registration package which will use the new methods

[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.006%) to 41.641% when pulling 3639dbe on chroot_management into 979ae92 on master.

[mvidner]

Just a clickable reference to WFM.scr_root.

[yast-bot]

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