[Yum] old code questions

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue Jul 24 15:22:59 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 08:07 -0700, Gallie, Keith wrote:
> 
> No, I did not. The way I read the docs, install root specifies an
> alternative root to which packages are installed. The RPM database is
> not mentioned. Does changing the installroot change where the rpm
> database is expected?

installroot says: put everything over in some other path

since your rpmdb is defined as: $installroot/var/lib/rpm

then by setting the installroot you're implicitly changing the rpmdb
path.

-sv





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