On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 11:36 +0200, Henning Markussen wrote: > Hi > > Is there any way to specify an alternate RPM database in Yum (2.0.8)? > In RPM there is --dbpath option, where you can specify a other than the > one in /var/lib/rpm. > > My goal is to save the RPM's from a lot of servers on one central server. > And on this server see if there is any RPM's that need to be updated. > > Unfortunately not all server's that have Internet access so I can't use > Yum on the other servers. > By collecting the RPM on this server I can script through the rpm dirs, > and find out what servers needs updating. > If your servers have access to a local network then you can setup a local mirror of the repositories on the net and then they all can act the same way w/o having to hack around by copying out the rpmdb. -sv
