On 7/15/05, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 09:56 -0400, Jeremy Redburn wrote: > > Is there any way to specify an alternate path to the RPM database in > > Yum (2.3.4)? With RPM, the --dbpath option accomplishes what I am > > looking for, but I have not seen any way to have Yum use a database > > other than the one in /var/lib/rpm. > > to what end? To manage a chroot/buildroot? > > if so then look at --installroot > It's part of a larger project in which we'd like to store the RPM databases for our entire cluster on a central machine or two. The eventual idea is to do the dependency checking on the central node(s) in order to determine which of our machines we want to install a newly required application onto. I might be able to shoehorn --installroot into doing what I'm looking for, but might have better luck patching the code to accept a new conf option. Also, is there a dry-run option available? ie. I want to install vim, please tell me what would be installed but don't actually download or install anything?
