RE: old code questions

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 07:02 -0700, Gallie, Keith wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Thank you. We've actually discovered mutiple rpm databases on our
> systems...

That's.... odd.

-sv