Bug 79331 - rpm 4.1 does not seem to support --prefix option
Summary: rpm 4.1 does not seem to support --prefix option
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 75057
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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Reported: 2002-12-10 09:13 UTC by Rajiv Ganth
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-12-10 09:13:14 UTC
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Description Rajiv Ganth 2002-12-10 09:13:08 UTC
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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:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-12-10 11:59:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75057 ***


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