On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 00:43 -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:10:20PM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:35 -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > > > Has anyone modified yum to accept an alternate path to the RPM > > > database (rpm --dbpath=<path>)? If so, are the patches available? > > > > > > If not, would patches be accepted for inclusion into yum? > > > > Before patches would be included I'd need an explanation for what > > problem it would solve. Where/why are you relocating your rpmdb and > > why would you need yum to access it? > > We have customers installing our RPM packages that prefer to keep them > in a separate database. Our RPM packages never depend on system RPMs > so we can get away with it. > > It's fine if the patch isn't accepted. We'll just maintain them > locally for the version of YUM we provide. How do they resolve all the deps they need to install their software if they're using a separate rpmdb? -sv
