Re: Relocation broken on 4.3.3-18 ?

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Marty Ridgeway wrote:

> Relocation appear not to work on RPM 4.3.3-18 .
>
> I have Prefix: set to /opt/myfiles
>
> All files in the RPM are in /opt/myfiles/myprog
>
> When I pass the --prefix flag and try to install to /usr/local/opt/ 
> myfiles/ for example, it still installs in the default directory
>
> Also if I query  rpm -qp --queryformat '%{prefix}\n' or  
> {defaultprefix} I get an incorrect format error. If I query {name},  
> [release}, {version}, etc. the query comes backs correctly.

Have you tried

    rpm -Uvh --relocate /=/usr/local --badreloc yourpkg*.rpm

Yes rpm --query will fail with unknown tags, neither %{prefix} nor % 
{defaultprefix}
are vald tags iirc (rpm-4.3.3 was released 4+ years ago).

The list of valid tags is displayed using --querytags. Try
    rpm -qp --qf '[%{prefixes}\n]' yourpkg*.rpm
to see what prefix{s} were included in yourpkg.

But all directory/file paths in *.rpm packages can be relocated or  
excluded if --badreloc is used.

hth

73 de Jeff