Bug 39943

Summary:	rpm --relocate seems broken
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Martin Lichtin <lichtin>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	redhatbugzillaold
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Description Martin Lichtin 2001-05-09 20:20:27 UTC

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Description of problem:
rpm --relocate doesn't seem to work. See the output of a try:

[root@trane /root]# rpm -i --relocate /opt/poet61=/tmp/poet61
http://192.168.1.1/rpms/POET61-JavaCollectionClasses-6.1.8.76-1.i386.rpm
Installing Java Collection Classes
error: can't unlink /tmppoet61-RPMDELETE: Is a directory

Note the missing slash in "tmppoet61". It doesn't install any files,
but puts the package into to the list of installed ones. Pretty weird.


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try rpm --relocate with a relocatable package
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-09 20:27:36 UTC

Fixed in rpm-4.0.3-0.6, available at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.3

Please note that everything newer than 4.0.3-0.6 is still under development,
and is a very different beast indeed.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-10 14:56:40 UTC

*** Bug 40084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Todd Allen 2001-09-21 15:50:51 UTC

The ftp site mentioned, ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.3, no longer contains
rpm 4.0.3-0.6.  It now contains rpm 4.0.3-1.03, which appears to be that very
different beast you warned about.

Where can we find rpm 4.0.3-0.6?

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2001-10-19 14:35:35 UTC

Can anyone tell me where the fix rpm is ?  I am trying to load Informix 
software and get the same issue /products/informix errors as /productsinform.