Re: [cobalt-users] [Raq2] Rpm installation

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:29:54PM +0200, Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:
: That's not completely right.
: 
: Lots of packages are built "relocateable". This means that you can
: write:
: 
:         rpm -i --prefix=/home/ mypackage.rpm

	Ugh, that is right.  Completely forgot about that! Must be because
every rpm I build ignores it :)
 
: Ofcourse some packages can't really be moved, and others have some
: defiencies when moved. Especially you will probably have to edit your
: PATH, in order to be able to start these commands as you normally
: would.

and libraries paths, possibly internal paths in the program, etc.  It can
get really dificult real quick to get it working.  Generally, I believe
if you want to put something in a non-standard location, you are doing
something wrong.

What I think this person might want to do is move some directories to
/home and create a symbolic link to them to free up space in /usr :)

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net