Re: Why is it so hard to create a relocatable RPM???

[Adrian Ho <aho-linux-rpm 03s net>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:38:07PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> I'm trying to create an RPM (with RPM version 3.0.4) that is relocatable.
> I'm not using RPM to actually create a source RPM, just to create a binary
> RPM that's easy to install.  Here's the .spec file:
> [...]

Spec file looks OK at first glance.

> Here's the installation line:
> 
> rpm -ivv --prefix /usr/local fc-0.1-1.i386.rpm 

Command line looks OK, too.  What's the output look like?

Also, what does 'rpm -qlp fc-0.1-1.i386.rpm' say?  Your relocated RPM
build may have failed for some reason, so you may actually be looking at
an old version of that RPM.

- Adrian