Hi, This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/359161>.
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > When trying to install a rpm-database in some dir using rpm --root, the > wrong dbpath is used for locking the transaction, which of course makes > the whole transaction fail. > This is shown when trying the following as a non-root user: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bla$ mkdir -p root-dir/var/lib/rpm > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bla$ rpm --root `pwd`/root-dir --initdb > error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bla$ find root-dir I think you want to pass --dbpath as well. Can you confirm this solves your issue? Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
