"Jason A. Pattie" wrote:
> >Cobus Hill wrote:
> >>I know you can also force the rpm to install to a certain dircectory but there are
>a few rpms i have encountered that does not allow for this to happen.
> >>
> Umm. I think you can get away with relocating any RPM out there that
> you want. Maybe 'relocate' isn't the right word. Have you used the
> --root feature of rpm? This will definitely put the RPM package/files
> and the RPM database entries in the location you want. So for example,
> to install the latest version of Mozilla to the /opt/ltsp/i386 directory
> infrastructure, on the server, you would type 'rpm --root /opt/ltsp/i386
> mozilla-1.0.0-...-i386.rpm', and viola! Mozilla goes where you want it
> to. No need for mounting /opt/ltsp/i386 read/write or to installing RPM
> into the thin client filesystem, etc.
Jason,
does the --root option relocate both the application and the rpm
database?
Is there any advantage to doing this vs. copying the executable and as
few libraries as we can get away with?
-David
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