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

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Dec 22, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> This scheme will work as long as you don't need more than one  
> installation of
> the exact same version of Perl, and all files are stored locally  
> (no networked
> file systems involved).  I've never played with relocatable  
> packages, hower
> something tells me RPM will not allow you to have same version of  
> package
> installed twice (or would it?).  So it might not be the problem  
> anyhow...

rpm has always permitted multiple instances of packages to be  
installed with -i.

Even identical. version and release, previously installed files are  
marked as REPLACED.

OTOH, having multiply installed identical packages -- even if  
relocated -- is extremely
confusing. The far molre maintainable solution is to rebuild the  
package with whatever
paths you want.

E.g. examine
    rpm -q kernel | wc
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