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 _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
