RE: old code questions

Panu Matilainen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, seth vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 09:50 -0700, Gallie, Keith wrote:
>>
>>> since your rpmdb is defined as: $installroot/var/lib/rpm
>>
>> Where is this definition? A config file? Hard coded in the rpmmodule.so?
>>
>> dbPath is set to conf.installroot and /var/lib/rpm is implied?
>
>
> the definition is somewhere in rpm. It's just one of rpms many
> 'features'.
>
> if you set dbPath separately then you can change it's destination, yes.

The dbpath is set by %{_dbpath} macro in rpm configuration, but 
/var/lib/rpm might be hardcoded in a few places if dbpath is not set at 
all.

 	- Panu -
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