Re: patching binaries at install time without breaking rpm -V?

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Thursday, 22 December 2005, at 10:48:40 (-0800),
Christian Goetze wrote:

> ># lsof -d txt
> 
> Neat...

Neat?  Reimplementing "lsof -d txt" in every program with run-time
configuration-independent search paths is "neat?"  Clearly your
definition of "neat" bears a suspicious resemblence to my definition
of "nuts."

> What I am looking for is a way to make relocatable rpms out of
> software that wasn't designed with this in mind,

If you can't fudge it with symlinks, use other software.  In any
event, this list is the wrong tree, and the barking should probably
stop.

Michael

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