Request 164 was acted upon.
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URL: https://rt.openpkg.org/id/164
Ticket: [OpenPKG #164]
Subject: replace RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX?!
Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queue: openpkg
Owner: Nobody
Status: open
Transaction: Correspondence added by guest
Time: Mon Jun 30 07:17:20 2003
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Hi
It would have a devastating effect on packages that I build (that are relocatable by
design) to remove this.
I know you say that OpenPKG is not intended to be relocatable, but as long as the
functionality is in there, please don't take it out...
Cheers
Conrad
> [rse - Sat Jun 28 14:45:35 2003]:
>
> $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX exists in %post and %pre, pointing to %{l_prefix} or
> if --prefix/--relocate is given on the command line (think "relocated
> packages") to the given path. But OpenPKG packages not intended to be
> relocatable. They are sometimes technically, but often they cannot
> be relocated because of hard-coded paths in binaries. And OpenPKG
> philosophie is to build from scratch and from source for each location
> -- meaning package relocation is not required. So, perhaps we should
> replace all occurences of $RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX with %{l_prefix}?!
>
> Ralf S. Engelschall
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.engelschall.com
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