That frood Benjamin Scott sassed:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> >> One of the things I love about Red Hat Linux over Microsoft Windows is how
> >> *easy* it is to install a new package. "rpm -i foo" and *I'M DONE*.
> >
> > On the other hand, this method isn't all that flexible. If you're
> > installing something to be shared, for example, you can't control WHERE it
> > gets installed.
>
> Well, remember, the whole idea of package management is centralized control.
> The idea is that you install the RPM on a "master" system, and then share the
> /usr filesystem to other systems.
Invariably, I have stuff installed in /usr that I also want to share
but don't want installed the same way. So that's right out.
> If you prefer, you can use multiple RPM databases. Create a separate RPM DB
> just for use for shared packages. Use --root and/or --dbpath to select that
> database when installing packages to the shared location. This has the
> advantage of keeping the "shared" stuff septate from the "local" stuff present
My experience with the --root option is that it hasn't ever worked.
Not that I've tried it too often, but after once or twice the point's
moot anyway.
--
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Was it just imagination stringing us along?
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