This patch must be applied to fakeroot 2.8 or SVN in order to
enable correct handling of relative chroots, for rpm and yum.

Index: src/libfakechroot.c
===================================================================
--- src/libfakechroot.c	(revision 311)
+++ src/libfakechroot.c	(working copy)
@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@
 {
     char *ptr, *ld_library_path, *tmp, *fakechroot_path;
     int status, len;
-    char dir[FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH], cwd[FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH], full_path[FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH];
+    char dir[FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH], cwd[FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH];
 #if !defined(HAVE_SETENV)
     char *envbuf;
 #endif
@@ -1162,7 +1162,9 @@
         return -1;
     }
     if (*path != '/') {
-        if (getcwd(cwd, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH) == NULL) {
+        if (next_getcwd == NULL) fakechroot_init();
+
+        if (next_getcwd(cwd, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH) == NULL) {
             errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
             return -1;
         }
@@ -1171,24 +1173,22 @@
             return -1;
         }
         if (strcmp(cwd, "/") == 0) {
-            snprintf(full_path, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "/%s", path);
+            snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "/%s", path);
         }
         else {
-            snprintf(full_path, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
+            snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
         }
     }
     else {
-        snprintf(full_path, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s", path);
-    }
+	fakechroot_path = getenv("FAKECHROOT_BASE");
 
-    fakechroot_path = getenv("FAKECHROOT_BASE");
-
-    if (fakechroot_path != NULL) {
-        snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s%s", fakechroot_path, full_path);
+	if (fakechroot_path != NULL) {
+	    snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s%s", fakechroot_path, path);
+	}
+	else {
+	    snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s", path);
+	}
     }
-    else {
-        snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s", full_path);
-    }
 
 #if defined(HAVE___XSTAT) && defined(_STAT_VER)
     if ((status = next___xstat(_STAT_VER, dir, &sb)) != 0) {