From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021031 Description of problem: rpm version 4.1 doesn't seem to recognize the excludepath option. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm -Uvh --excludepath /usr/local --noscripts /.auto/kickstart/Packages/realplayer/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm Actual Results: rpm -Uvh --excludepath /usr/local --noscripts /.auto/kickstart/Packages/realplayer/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:RealPlayer ########################################### [100%] error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/local/lib/netscape/mailcap;3dc99fee: cpio: open failed - Permission denied Expected Results: All files that begin with /usr/local should be excluded from the install. Additional info: % rpm -q rpm rpm-4.1-1.06
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75550 ***
I don't understand why this bug has been marked as duplicate of 75550 whereby this bug (--relocate option problem) seems to has nothing to do with it. I've not so much experience in using this tool, so I will leave this bug as closed and hope to get an answer on how to find the corresponding information.