Quoting Christian Goetze <cg@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Michael Jennings wrote:
[...] nuts [...]
If you can't fudge it with symlinks, use other software. In any
event, this list is the wrong tree, and the barking should probably
stop.
Thanks for your helpful responses. If this attitude is representative
of the list, then it goes a long way to explaining many of rpm's
"features".
Actually, Michael gave you possibly very usable idea. Usable depending on why
you need relocatable packages. For example, take Perl. There's
/usr/lib/perl5
directory, location of which is hardcoded. So, you'd compile Perl
telling it to
use /usr/lib/perl5-version (or whatever).
At the end of %install, rename /usr/lib/perl5-version to
/usr/lib/perl5. Then,
in %post or %pre (doesn't really matter), create symbolic link
/usr/lib/perl5-version pointing to wherver the package is being
installed. Yeah, you'll have one symbolic link created outside of new
location, nothing is
perfect.
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...
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