On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 06:04 -0700, Gallie, Keith wrote: > > 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? > I've forgotten why are you combining rpm 4.2.3 and yum 2.0.8? -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
