Bug 46890

Summary:	rpm Can't install a product on an other place
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Luis Panozzo Saavedra <titansof>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	bugs.michael
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Description Luis Panozzo Saavedra 2001-07-01 21:12:54 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I try to install a program in an other directory rpm send me an error

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm -i --prefix /home/installdir program.rpm
2.rpm -i --relocate /opt/installdir=/home/installdir program.rpm
3.
	

Actual Results:  * error; can't unlink /homeinstalldir-RPMDELETE: Is a 
directory
* can't rename /homeinstalldir to /homeinstalldir-RPMDELETE: Is a directory
* unpacking of archive failed on fila /homeinstalldir: cpio: unlink failed 
Is a directory.

Expected Results:  Installed program

Additional info:

Note that I told rpm that install directory will be /home/installdir and 
the error told me /homeinstalldir

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2001-07-02 01:42:20 UTC

# rpm -i --relocate /usr/=/usr/local package.i386.rpm 
file /usrlocal from install of package-1.0-1rh71 conflicts with file from
package filesystem-2.0.7-1

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-07-02 14:43:10 UTC

Relocations are fixed at
	ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.3
as well as in recent rpm-4.0.3 packages.