Re: old code questions

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 17:14 -0700, Gallie, Keith wrote:
> I've been hacking on yum 2.0.8 and rpm for an internal enterprise wide
> solution. I've got just about everything figured out except how to get
> yum to look at an RPM database other than the default /var/lib/rpm. I've
> spent most of the day on the debugger and haven't quite got there. 
> 
> Trying to figure it out I get
> 
> Downloading Packages
> Getting try_4-3.0-9.x86_64.rpm
> Getting try_3-3.0-1.x86_64.rpm
> Getting try_1-4.2-1.x86_64.rpm
> Running test transaction:
> error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - No such file or directory
> (2)
> Segmentation fault
> 
> This could be due to our screwy python install as the segv seem to be
> during the return from a callback class RPMInstallCallback after a pass.

did you try with --installroot=/some/path in 2.0.8?

-sv