[BLU] relocatable RPMS & autoconf

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 linuxguy at ici.net wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> I was wondering if anyone on this list speaks RPM fluently :-)
>
> I want to build packages that get installed in /tmp/[project-dir] but
> end up being RPM installed in /opt/[project-dir].
>
> I do understand the RPM relocatable package process, but I'm missing the
> link where I tell autoconf/configure to build/compile for /opt/[dir]
> and then when I run 'make install' it's all gets stuffed into /tmp/[dir].
>
> If you understand what Im asking, then surely you must know the answer...


How about using
       --relocate <oldpath>=<newpath>
              For relocatable packages, translates the files that
              would be put in <oldpath> to <newpath>.

at installtime?  I never used it myself.


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