[Yum] Specifying alternate path to RPM database directory

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:15:15PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> 
> A bigger justification for multiple DBs is for central installation of
> RPM packages for multiple platforms (think installation to an NFS
> server). RPM can do this today with --relocate. We have customers
> installing packages for Solaris, HP, and AIX on a central server,
> using --relocate to install to an OS-specific directory on a central
> NFS server. Clients then mount the correct OS-specific directory.

Thinking about this some more, I doubt yum could be used for it as it
would need to support arbitrary RPM args (specifically, --relocate).

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)