Well I have thought of seperating the installation. 1) Just extract all the files into /apps/newapp 2) bash script to create the links and other misc files. But I want to ask the list if everything can be done in 1 swoop than many.... > -----Original Message----- > From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Panu Matilainen > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:19 AM > To: RPM Package Manager > Subject: Re: Installing into shared NFS server... > > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:04 -0700, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am wondering how do you tell the .SPEC file not to install into a > > certain path if it already has the same files? > > > > Example: > > > > If /apps/ is the NFS shared server that 10 servers mount to, and I > > install an app in /apps/newapp on the 1st server and then the 2nd > > server will be installing the same file to the same > location with some > > files not being on the shared NFS server (some files in local > > server /usr dir). How do I tell the rpm file not to put files > > into /apps/newapps if that dir has all the files there? > > > > Thanks for any help you can give... > > Not quite what you're ask for (that's not possible with rpm > AFAIK) but should help anyway: > > Make one of those servers the "master" and only install rpm's > from that one. On the other servers set "%_netsharedpath > /apps" in rpm configuration and rpm wont put anything into > /apps on the other hosts. > > - Panu - > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list >
