> Did you ever try the  --excludepath OLDPATH option, which means "Don't
> install any files whose name begins with OLDPATH"?  I wonder if you
> could use that option when you installed the software on the other
> guests who have /usr r/o, e.g. RPM --excludepath /usr <rpm file>.  Maybe
> that would tell RPM to only install files that don't go in /usr.

My experience with that is that it only works for  >one<
excluded path.   While I only use one path in the example,
clearly there could be more and would be more in practice.

-- R;

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