ok I was using a seperate db because I wanted to ensure that whats installed on my system and what I am checking in a directory are not interfering with each other On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 23:46, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:08:09 -0600, Greg wrote: > > > ah ok the reason im doing a test is I am building a single cd fedora > > core load (base+core) with snort, clamav, tripwire, chkrootkit, > > mondo/mindi, snmp and webmin (with ssl deps). So far its all installing > > fine and 249 files at 272980k in size for a cd. The only thing left is > > kickstart automating the configuration to apply the firewall, > > bastille-linux, and package config changes to make it all tidy. > > > > Since the rpms are in a local directory, I check them to find any > > dependencies I may have missed and also any problems with bad sigs. > > > > Im going back to 'man rpm' to see if I find out how to tell it to use > > the regular db as well. But if anyone knows offhand and would post it, > > that would be great. > > Ehm, to do that you omit the "--dbpath /tmp/testdb" parameter, because > by default it will use the regular db in /var/lib/rpm. If you want to > install signed packages into your test db, make sure, you import the GPG > keys into your test db beforehand. > > -- >
