On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 03:09, Andrew Schwerin wrote: > I have tried this again on a new directory. Indeed, the var/lib/rpm > directory is created and populated, but yum when executing creates > files __db.00{1,2,3} and Packages in the --installroot directory, and > appears to update those files and not the corresponding ones in > var/lib/rpm. I suspect this behavior comes from the __init__ method of > class Rpm_Ts_Work in rpmUtil.py, but I don't have much understanding of > the python rpm libraries. Someone else noticed this too, and it seems like it is rpm that is locking the primary /var/lib/rpm as well. -sv