Adding --noorphandirs (or --nolinktos for the other new implicit dependency)wrapping rpm with a popt alias (or even shell) is always available.
I'm guessing you meant --noparentdirs? I've been using it for testing purposes and works nicely in a pinch.
There are ongoing efforts to make the behavior configurable in rpm-4_5 for "everywhere compatible" behavior. On Solaris you can always patch to disable the 2 bits and rebuild. I'd send you the patch but there are too many flip-flop variant diddles over the last year. All I can say is that its easy to disable 2 bits ...
That would be great to have it configurable in 4.5. For now I think we're just going to have a skeleton system provided by our current vpkgs. They need some tweaking for this, but I'll only have to do it once, and this method sounds like the best way to go at it.
Thanks, -Dave -- ================================ David Halik Systems Programmer OSS/NBCS - OIT Rutgers dhalik jla rutgers edu================================