[Yum-devel] rpm dbpath and mock

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Wed Apr 19 17:36:13 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 03:04 +1000, Alan Milligan wrote:
> Thanks guys.
> 
> Paul is right, I am asking about dbpath.
> 
> There's a subtle difference between them in that root only affects where
> unpacks, pre and post scripts etc will be applied from, whereas dbpath
> suggests which actual BDB's to use - getting this wrong could be quite
> surprising ;)

Incorrect root will correctly use a db under /path/to/root/var/lib/rpm
and not the system rpmdb.

Paul






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