"Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005, Simon J Mudd wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:17:48PM +0200, Steve Weinreich wrote: > > > > > > --On Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2005 15:54 +0200 Stijn De Weirdt > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >hi all, > > > > > > > >i just installed openpkg on scientific linux 3, which is a clone of > > > >rhel3. > > > >so i used > > > >sh openpkg-2.4.0-2.4.0.ix86-rhel3-openpkg.sh --prefix=/opt/openpkg > > > >to install openpkg. > > > >the result was: > > > > > > The OpenPKG Binary Pakages are not supposed to be relocated via the > > > --prefix commandline-option. They life in the /openpkg prefix. If you like > > > to have a OpenPKG Instance in another prefix use source packages and > > > rebuild all needed packages from the source. The first package you should > > > build is a custom openpkg package via > > > > > > $ ./openpkg-2.4.0-2.4.0.src.rpm --prefix=/opt/openpkg > > > > > > After that you could build more packages using > > > > > > % /opt/openpkg/bin/openpkg rpm --rebuild > > > ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.4/SRC/foo-X.Y-2.4.0.src.rpm > > > > > > or by using openpkg-tools. You can find more documentation on our > > > website[1] and there is also a nice tutorial[2]. > > > > > > [1] http://www.openpkg.org/doc.html > > > [2] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html > > > > Perhaps the "fault" therefore lies in the "binary" shell script not > > complaining about the --prefix option being presented to it? > > > > $ sh openpkg-2.4.0-2.4.0.ix86-rhel3-openpkg.sh --prefix=/opt/openpkg > > > > should give an error???? > > Just a warning, because I've added it to the binary shell script to > allow one to unpack the stuff into an arbitrary temporary location (not > for really running there, but for unpacking and inspection). So, a > warning should be displayed that this option cannot be used to really > _INSTALL_ a _USABLE_ instance.
A warning is fine. Thanks, Simon ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
