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

--- fakechroot-2.8.orig/src/libfakechroot.c	2009-03-18 11:39:33.000000000 +0000
+++ fakechroot-2.8.rpm/src/libfakechroot.c	2009-03-18 12:43:51.000000000 +0000
@@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ int chroot (const char *path)
 {
     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
@@ -1134,23 +1134,21 @@ int chroot (const char *path)
             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);
-    }
-    else {
-        snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s", full_path);
+	if (fakechroot_path != NULL) {
+	    snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s%s", fakechroot_path, path);
+	}
+	else {
+	    snprintf(dir, FAKECHROOT_MAXPATH, "%s", path);
+	}
     }
 
 #if defined(HAVE___XSTAT) && defined(_STAT_VER)