Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 42873
rpm --prefix/--relocate failure
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:29 EDT
Description of Problem: Any use of rpm --prefix (or --relocate) with relocatable packages fail with error: error: can't unlink /tmpblah-RPMDELETE: Is a directory error: can't rename /tmpblah to /tmpblah-RPMDELETE: Is a directory error: unpacking of archive failed on file /tmpblah: cpio: unlink failed - Is a directory or if installing to a pre-existing system directory: rpm --prefix /usr package.rpm file usr from install of package conflicts with file from package filesystem-2.0.7-1 How Reproducible: I've tried this with at least 4 relocatable rpms with the same result. Expected Results: I would like to be able to relocate some packages is all. I'm particularly interesting in relocating IBM's IBMJava2-JRE-1.3-6.0.i386.rpm java rpm from it's default of /opt
rpm-4.0.2? Yes, relocations are broken there ... Try rpm-4.0.3-0.6 (or any recent version of rpm-4.0.3) at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.3 Reopen this bug with more info if rpm-4.0.3-0.6 does not work for you.
Sorry, I forgot to check for resolved/closed bugs before posting this. My report dups previous bug #39943
I can verify that the --prefix and --relocate options work as advertised with the rpm-4.0.3-0.6 packages you referrenced.