On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 13:21 -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:15:15PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > > > > A bigger justification for multiple DBs is for central installation of > > RPM packages for multiple platforms (think installation to an NFS > > server). RPM can do this today with --relocate. We have customers > > installing packages for Solaris, HP, and AIX on a central server, > > using --relocate to install to an OS-specific directory on a central > > NFS server. Clients then mount the correct OS-specific directory. > > Thinking about this some more, I doubt yum could be used for it as it > would need to support arbitrary RPM args (specifically, --relocate). Aah, yes, shared installations is one of the big shortcomings of rpm. But as you said, you are probably out of luck with yum here, unless you can structure your NFS in such a way that you can use the installroot option. David -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20060113/662bd299/attachment.bin
