On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 07:26 -0400, David Beach wrote: > 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. I do not think yum will play nicely with an rpmdb in the non-default location outside of a separate chroot. -sv
