[Yum-devel] Want --dbpath equivalent for yum?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:05 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> > What's the point? What functionality do you get from --dbpath that
> > --root doesn't give you?
> 
> I am working on an offline update tool for Fedora, and it makes it
> easier to point yum/rpm to the different rpmdbs representing the
> profiles of the target machines. --dbpath just removes the need for
> maintaining something like $profilename/var/cache/yum, and one can
> simply have $profilename.
> 
> You can see the whole proposal at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay
> 
> True it is not a big pain, but just that it would be nice to have. :-)

do you want --dbpath to point to the location of the yum cachedir? or to
the location of the rpmdb?

-sv