[ale] Install RPM file and specify install directory

[Jim Popovitch]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 15:13 -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
> 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

;-) opps.  Thanks.


-Jim P.