If you have the rpm why not use rpm2tar and extract to whichever directory you want? I'm guessing if you want it to go to a different directory you don't want the rpm scripts to run anyway. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 22, 2011, at 5:57 PM, "Fajar A. Nugraha" <work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Erming Pei <erming@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi James, >> >> I tried with --installroot, and it's not what I want. For example, >> #yum --installroot=/opt install Soft_pkgs >> #ls /opt >> cache/ lib/ ... >> (all yum stuff, not the software I needed.) > > Short answer, you can't. > > Long answer, --installroot is particularly useful if you want to > create/work on an alternate root installation, e.g. when rescuing a > broken system, or installing an OS template for a VPS. If you want to > move the binary location of some (not all) packages (e.g. move bash > from /bin/bash to /opt/bash/bin/bash), then you can't do that with yum > and normal distro-provided rpm. You need to create a special rpm for > that. See http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-reloc-building-relocatable.html > > -- > Fajar > > >> >> Thanks, >> >> Erming >> >> >> >> On 6/22/11 9:31 AM, James Antill wrote: >>> >>> Erming Pei<erming@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Does anyone know about that how to specify root directory for yum >>>> installation? >>>> I tried with putting $_prefix in .rpmmacros, but it doesn't work. >>>> And yum --installroot option seems not the solution too. >>> >>> --installroot does specify the _root_ directory. If you want to >>> specify the --prefix, you can't do that. >>> > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
