On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:39:05AM -0400, Jeremy Redburn wrote: > 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. If you're feeling really ambitious... I haven't looked at it at all, but I understand that recent versions of RPM (maybe only the very most recent) can use a sqlite backend. It may be interesting to extend that into a networked-database backend. > 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? Yes -- run it, and say "no" when it asks you to confirm. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
