On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 21:45 -0500, Sergei Mikhailov wrote: > I sent this message to the list a couple of days ago, but I don't think > it ever got posted. > > I wanted to know is there is there a way to tell yum to use a different > rpm database and a different install root. Effectively, specify --dbpath > and --root rpm options. > you can't change both - but yum --installroot=/some/path that will assume that / == /some/path and the rpmdb == /some/path/var/ lib/rpm -sv