I am using yum's --installroot option to maintain a computing cluster, and I've noticed that when run with --installroot, yum puts a bunch of RPM database files in the --installroot-specified directory. It seems to me that the correct location is actually <--installroot>/var/lib/rpm. Has the current behavior been chosen for a particular reason, and can it be modified by command line options? If not, I will put together a patch to get the behavior I'm looking for and offer it up. I'm thinking that the most flexible option is to have option --rpmdbdir, and to use that for yum's rpm database transactions. Thoughts? -Andy Schwerin Univeristy of Washington, Computer Science & Eng.
