transaction locking appears to wedge relocation

[Darrell Schiebel <darrell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We like to distribute our software packages using RPM, but some of our 
users cannot install RPMs are root. For these cases, we have resorted 
to relocating the RPMs (as a non-root user). So we do something like:

    bash$ tar -C /var/lib -cf rpm | tar xf -
    bash$ rpm --dbpath `pwd`/rpm --prefix `pwd` -i *.rpm

In general, aside from a few details, this has worked well. However, it 
seems as though this is now broken by the transaction system introduced 
with RPM 4.3.*. Looking at rpmlock.c it looks like there is no way to 
direct RPM to look anywhere besides /var/lock/rpm/transaction.

Perhaps I'm wrong. I would have certainly expected this to have arisen 
before now.

Could anyone suggest how I can allow ordinary users to install RPMs 
with RPM 4.3.*?

thanks very much,
Darrell Schiebel
drs@xxxxxxxx
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.nrao.edu/

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