Re: Relocation broken on 4.3.3-18 ?

Jeff, that worked like a champ. Thanks for the quick feedback.

Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> On Aug 1, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Marty Ridgeway wrote:
>
>> Relocation appear not to work on RPM 4.3.3-18 .
>>
>> I have Prefix: set to /opt/myfiles
>>
>> All files in the RPM are in /opt/myfiles/myprog
>>
>> When I pass the --prefix flag and try to install to 
>> /usr/local/opt/myfiles/ for example, it still installs in the default 
>> directory
>>
>> Also if I query  rpm -qp --queryformat '%{prefix}\n' or 
>> {defaultprefix} I get an incorrect format error. If I query {name}, 
>> [release}, {version}, etc. the query comes backs correctly.
>>
>
> Have you tried
>
>     rpm -Uvh --relocate /=/usr/local --badreloc yourpkg*.rpm
>
> Yes rpm --query will fail with unknown tags, neither %{prefix} nor 
> %{defaultprefix}
> are vald tags iirc (rpm-4.3.3 was released 4+ years ago).
>
> The list of valid tags is displayed using --querytags. Try
>     rpm -qp --qf '[%{prefixes}\n]' yourpkg*.rpm
> to see what prefix{s} were included in yourpkg.
>
> But all directory/file paths in *.rpm packages can be relocated or 
> excluded if --badreloc is used.
>
> hth
>
> 73 de Jeff
>
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