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here is the message I send to JBJ earlier: Jeff, you remember my original pledge, here is the continuation: 1. rpm -Uvh best1-ntc-6.3.00-2.i386.cygwin.rpm --ignoreos --relocate /best1_home=/$HOME --relocate "/Start Menu=/$HOME" 2. rpm -Uvh best1-ntc-6.3.00-3.i386.cygwin.rpm --ignoreos --relocate /best1_home=/$HOME --relocate "/Start Menu=/$HOME" 3. as a result of a second command ALL best1-ntc package files are deleted. Note that if you do not put '/' in front of $HOME, everything is OK. However I do need '//' as a first thing in the path to satisfy CYGWIN. rpm --version RPM version 2.5.6, almost stock RH 5.2 Packages in question available in the location: ftp://ftp.ultra.net/pub/eugene/test. Packages contain just one file for test purposes. File is the same in both. Packages were made on NT. Any hints are greatly appreciated!! ------end of message------------ Today I decided to repeat the same on Red Hat 5.9, since there have been aparently no interest in fixing rpm 2.5.6 at this time. here it is, stock RH 5.9 please note the '/' before $HOME. I need it for normal RPM functionality under CYGWIN/UWIN. It is very important. RPM works fine otherwise. [ekanter@EKANTER ekanter]$ cat .rpmrc macrofiles: /usr/lib/macros:/home/ekanter/.rpmmacros [ekanter@EKANTER ekanter]$ cat .rpmmacros %_dbpath /home/ekanter/rpmdb [ekanter@EKANTER ekanter]$ rpm -Uvh ~eugene/redhat/RPMS/i386/best1-ntc-6.3.00-2.i386.cygwin.rpm --ignoreos --relocate /best1_home=/$HOME --nodeps best1-ntc ################################################## [ekanter@EKANTER ekanter]$ rpm -Uvh ~eugene/redhat/RPMS/i386/best1-ntc-6.3.00-3.i386.cygwin.rpm --ignoreos --relocate /best1_home=/$HOME --nodeps best1-ntc ################################################## Segmentation fault (core dumped) [ekanter@EKANTER ekanter]$
AFAIK, this problem does not exist in rpm-3.0.x or later.