For those of you following along. I'm 99.98% sure I have got a solution. Thanks for all your help. The interesting part is that for reading the rpm database the yum $installroot argument seems to be respected. For the install, the argument does not seem to be respected for *all* files. Name and Packages seem to get updated in $installroot but the rest (Sigmd5, Requirename, Provideversion, etc) drop db4 error (13) permission denied errors. I can drop an .rpmmacro file in the home dir of the user/installer to set the _dbpath to fix the write issue for rpm 4.2.3 and yum 2.0.8. Is there a version combination of yum and rpm in which the rpm layer (rpmmodule.so -> librpmdb-4.2.so) always respects the $installroot? That is, reading nevral info for trancaction sets AND for installing? Thanks again _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
