[ale] Install RPM file and specify install directory
Chris Ricker
kaboom at oobleck.net
Mon May 16 15:25:14 EDT 2005
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > you shouldn't need to rebuild just to get it into /usr/local instead of
> > /usr
> >
> > rpm --relocate /usr=/usr/local
>
> My understanding is that --relocate and --prefix only handle binary
> files so they are not 100% guaranteed to not install on top of an
> existing install. One would think that --prefix would, but man rpm says
> it only applies to binaries.
binary packages, not binary files
It's just telling you that the --relocate / --prefix stuff doesn't apply
to .src.rpm
later,
chris
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