[Yum] Frakenyum LIVES!
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 8 13:08:00 UTC 2007
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
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