RPM Database on NFS Mount

["Eisenstein, Doug" <Doug Eisenstein geodecapital com>]

Hello,

I have been having trouble creating a rpm database as a non-root user on an
nfs mount. Is this possible?

I am running RH v7.2 (Kernel: 2.4.9-e.25).

Here's an example:

[test@server test]$ rpm --initdb --dbpath /test/local.linux.200311/rpmdb
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)

If I run this same command to a local directory (/var/tmp/rpmdb) it work's
successfully. Any suggestions?

Additionally if I run the same command on a Linux server running RH 9.0
(Kernel: 2.4.20-8) to a nfs mount running the same OS ver it works..

Can there be problems with the rpm package manager in RH 7.2
(rpm-4.0.4-7x.20) vs. RH 9.0 (rpm-4.2-0.69)?

Thanks!

Doug