Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 79331
rpm 4.1 does not seem to support --prefix option
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I have been using Red Hat Linux 7.3 for quiet sometime, and recently upgraded to 8.0. With this distro, Red Hat is distributing new version of rpm 4.1-x, which is not supporting some of the rpm commands which I am used to. First of all, the documentation CD with the Red Hat 8.0, does not talk about rpm 4.1 but, 4.0. There is no place, in the documentation CD, where I could find some info about latest rpm version with the OS distribution. The rpm command is simply ignoring the --prefix option. If I say, # rpm -Uvh --prefix /usr/local/mine <pkg>.rpm the package is not installed under /usr/local/mine It would be great, if you could provide the solution or pointers to the solution. Thanks in advance. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run command rpm -Uvh --prefix <dir name> <pkg>.rpm Actual Results: package is not installed under <dir name> Expected Results: package should have been installed under the specified directory <dir name> Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75057 ***