Re: packages.rpm question ...

[Derald Metzger <dmetz imagelinks com>]

>
> I want to install a .rpm file without updating the packages.rpm database
> ... anyone know :
>
> 1. If you can do this
> 2. How you do it ...
>
> this might seem like an odd thing to do, but as I don't have root access
> to the linux box in question and I'm tired of hassling my sysadmin (and,
> more to the point, he's tired of me hassling him), I have access to the
> dir that the stuff is going to be put into but not the packages.rpm
> database files ...
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Ben
>

Use the `--dbpath <dir>' option to solve the db problem.
You'll probably need to init you own db.
You'll also have to deal with relocating the pkg to get it 
into your own dir. If it was pkgd to be relocatable this should
be pretty straight forward, if not you should consider getting
the source rpm and building it to execute from your dir.

Derald
dmetz@remotesensing.org