Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 121088
Package info incorrect: states "Note: This is a relocatable package" but package is not relocateable
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:40 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: rpm -qip subversion-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm on the package obtained from rpmfind.net's Fedora Core Devel section states that it is relocateable in the description section. However, when I tried to rpm -Uvh --prefix ~ subversion-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm I get "error: package subversion is not relocateable". A quick check of the Relocations entry in the package info confirms this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -qip subversion-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm 2. rpm -Uvh --prefix ~ subversion-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm Actual Results: warning: subversion-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 error: package subversion is not relocateable Expected Results: Package should have installed in my home directory. :-) Additional info:
It doesn't actually say that any more. But there is an obscure rpm i18n thing which means that sometimes you'll get the wrong %description displayed, this happened to me too. Try unset LANG rpm -qip subversion-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm or maybe LANG=C rpm -qip subversion-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm I can't remember which works around it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107393 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.