David Johnston wrote:
>"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?
>
It doesn't 'relocate' in the sense that RPM gives to that word. It
actually does a chroot to the directory that you specify as --root and
does all installation steps and RPM database changes from that directory
as 'root'.
>Is there any advantage to doing this vs. copying the executable and as
>few libraries as we can get away with?
>
You get a "complete" RPM'lized system on the thin-client? This may not
be what people want, but if this is all coming over read-only NFS mount
points, I see this as a very nice feature. This way, you can just build
a minimal RPM system for the thin-clients but still retain the read-only
nature of the filesystem. You could install any application this way.
KDE/GNOME/any window manager RPM, etc.
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