On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:59:41AM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > 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? Our packages have no external dependencies. -- albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
