Thank you Jeff. Does anyone know if there are plans for this? Will NFS v3.0 change anything? My goal is to have a dozen Linux app servers connecting to a redundant file server (nfs server). The Linux servers will be running various applications (java, perl, emacs, PostgreSQL, etc) which are installed to the nfs mount. Currently this works w/o the use of RPM's, however I'd prefer to utilize all the benefits of rpming our packages. Note: the file server is an emc device and cannot have packages locally installed to that server (or else I wouldn't be sending this email out!) Has anyone else run into a problem like this or suggest something to me? Can RPM use a different database backend - such as PostgreSQL or MySQL? My alternate solution is to keep a separate rpm database on each Linux server, do all rpm installs from one server and then update all other rpm databases by using the --justdb switch. However this doesn't sound like a clean solution. Any help is GREATLY appreciated! -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:n3npq@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:15 PM To: rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RPM Database on NFS Mount Eisenstein, Doug wrote: >Hello, > >I have been having trouble creating a rpm database as a non-root user on an >nfs mount. Is this possible? > >I am running RH v7.2 (Kernel: 2.4.9-e.25). > >Here's an example: > >[test@server test]$ rpm --initdb --dbpath /test/local.linux.200311/rpmdb >error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > >If I run this same command to a local directory (/var/tmp/rpmdb) it work's >successfully. Any suggestions? > >Additionally if I run the same command on a Linux server running RH 9.0 >(Kernel: 2.4.20-8) to a nfs mount running the same OS ver it works.. > >Can there be problems with the rpm package manager in RH 7.2 >(rpm-4.0.4-7x.20) vs. RH 9.0 (rpm-4.2-0.69)? > >Thanks! > > You can't access an rpmdb through NFS, see details at www.sleepycat.com. 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
