[Yum] Alternative RPM DB paths with Yum

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:57 +0200, Henning Markussen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 11:36 +0200, Henning Markussen wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Is there any way to specify an alternate RPM database in Yum (2.0.8)?
> >> In RPM there is --dbpath option, where you can specify a other than the
> >> one in /var/lib/rpm.
> >>
> >> My goal is to save the RPM's from a lot of servers on one central
> >> server.
> >> And on this server see if there is any RPM's that need to be updated.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately not all server's that have Internet access so I can't use
> >> Yum on the other servers.
> >> By collecting the RPM on this server I can script through the rpm dirs,
> >> and find out what servers needs updating.
> >>
> >
> > If your servers have access to a local network then you can setup a
> > local mirror of the repositories on the net and then they all can act
> > the same way w/o having to hack around by copying out the rpmdb.
> >
> > -sv
> >
> >
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> Hi
> 
> Thanks for the quick answer!
> 
> The problem is we multiple networks that can't reach each other.
> So not all servers could reach a central server. By scripts I can get all
> the rpmdb to a central server (very complex due to security reasons).
> Now I have all the rpmdb on one server and now I would like to know which
> servers need patching.
> If I could change the rpmdb then I could script through all server's
> against a repository and end up with a mail that lists, what rpms that
> needs to be updated.
> 

I guess you _could_ do something like:

mkdir /server1
mkdir -p /server1/var/lib/rpm
cp -a /path/to/server1/rpmdb/* /server1/var/lib/rpm

yum --installroot=/server1 list updates

it's just icky.

-sv