Transaction Set API query

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu Aug 13 08:28:23 UTC 2009


On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Vinay Kalkoti wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if this is the right forum. I am using Transaction Set
> API to install RPM packages on my system. I have rpm database in the
> non-standard location.
>
> Is it possible to point to the rpm database using the Transaction Set API ?.

There's no direct rpmts API for it but you can point %_dbpath macro to the 
location of the database, eg:

addMacro(NULL, "_dbpath", NULL, "/path/to/your/rpmdb/", RMIL_DEFAULT);

That needs to be done before opening the database directly or indirectly.

 	- Panu -


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