On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:57 +0200, Henning Markussen wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Yum mailing list > > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > > Hi > > Thanks for the quick answer! > > The problem is we multiple networks that can't reach each other. > So not all servers could reach a central server. By scripts I can get all > the rpmdb to a central server (very complex due to security reasons). > Now I have all the rpmdb on one server and now I would like to know which > servers need patching. > If I could change the rpmdb then I could script through all server's > against a repository and end up with a mail that lists, what rpms that > needs to be updated. > I guess you _could_ do something like: mkdir /server1 mkdir -p /server1/var/lib/rpm cp -a /path/to/server1/rpmdb/* /server1/var/lib/rpm yum --installroot=/server1 list updates it's just icky. -sv
