RPM database vs contents database

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 13:44 -0500, James R Maxwell wrote:
> We currently are using Sun Solaris Packaing and are converting to RPM
> on Linux. We use the -R command for our pkg commands (i.e pkgadd
> -R /abc/def ...). Does rpm have a feature or option that allows for
> specifying a different location of the "contents db"?
> 
>  


rpm -r /some/place 

or

rpm --root=/some/place

-sv