Re: Gnome RPMs not relocateable

[Marc Ewing <marc redhat com>]

Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> On Fri, 22 May 1998, Stephanos Piperoglou wrote:
> 
> > Is there a specific reason that the GNOME RPMs aren't relocateable? Or
> > is it that no one has bothered to make them so? It would really help if
> > I could dump GNOME under /opt/gnome and not worry about any conflicts.
> > If anything, it would be easier to do an rm -rf /opt/gnome and start
> > from scratch instead of constantly worrying about conflicting
> > installations of various modules.
> 
> One trick that I have found to be useful in the past for things as big
> as this is to have two /usr/local/ partitions.  Now, if only the GNOME
> RPMs installed themselves there ;)

Actually with RPM 2.5 you can arbitrarily relocate packages like this:

rpm -ivh gnome.rpm --badreloc --relocate /usr=/opt/gnome

(If the package was built with "Prefixes: /usr" you wouldn't need the
 --badreloc).

-Marc