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In a message dated: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:32:42 +0800
Nick Urbanik said:
>It is a bit of work to make and test a relocatable package which has many
>configuration files, such as the dhcp server and client.
>
>Do you want to be able to relocate, say, the /usr and /var directories, or do
>you need finer control, so that /usr, /var/run, /var/db, and perhaps others,
>are relocatable?
>
>What are your particular needs?
Well, since I don't really know what building and rpm entails, I don't really
know what to say.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to do the equivalent of the autoconf
--prefix=PREFIX where I can set PREFIX to be the root of the tree where the
package gets installed. So, for instance, if PREFIX=/usr/local then the
package gets installed in /usr/local/bin,/usr/local/var, etc. But if
PREFIX=/foo/bar/baz, then everything gets installed down the /foo/bar/baz
tree.
I can see where this might be tricky though, whic may be why so few packages
are relocatable. Autoconf is able to do this since it's configuring the
Makefile which will then compile the package. rpm, on the otherhand is
dealing with an already compiled package, which means that the location of the
package is probably defined at compile time, not at rpm build-time.
I don't know. What would you suggest?
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