I'm evaluating yum as a tool for managing 'in-house' application deployment. The idea is to establish a custom rpm repository of internally developed applications, and use yum (manually, as a non-root users) to resolve package dependencies at install time. I think it's feasible for non-root users to use yum (nothing in the packages will require root access) if installs can be directed to query and update a private rpm database. Has anyone done this? Can you provide details? I understand how to create the private rpm database, but can I configure yum to update it? I've found plenty of references to establishing private yum repositories, but it's not clear how to configure yum to perform installs with the rpm command line argument of --dbpath. Thanks, David
