Phil Fong wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install the Moblin Image Creator from > moblin-image-creator-0.48-1.fc9.noarch.rpm on a Fedora 9 system. > The problem is that /usr/bin/image-creator conflicts with a file of > the same name from the Fedora livecd-tools package. IS there some way > I can relocate the Moblin Image Creator install? Using --prefix with > rpm gives a message saying "package moblin-image-creator is not > relocatable"
rpm packages have to be constructed with the intent for them to be relocatable for that to work. the default, as you've seen, is not-relocatable. it's extremely bad practice for non distro-provided pkgs to put files in /usr/bin, for the reason we've just seen - namespace conflicts. in the case of a conflict, the distro files should always be considered to win. Moblin tools should be installing to /opt to stay out of the way. _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
