On Monday 29 September 2008 15:55:55 Charles Plessy wrote: Hello,
> Le Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 02:46:00PM +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 06:36 -0700, Kruti wrote: > > > i mean when you do apt-get install <package>, all the files of the > > > package are installed in /usr.for eg: packge binary in /usr/bin. > > > but if i want the package n all its files to be installed in a > > > directory other than /usr for eg in XYZ directory thn what should i > > > do...thnks > > > > The package determines the directories, it is not up to you to change it > > unless it is your package (and changes must be compliant with Policy) - > > Hi Neil, > > I guess that Kruti meant that if a foobar package has the following > files: > > /usr/bin/foobar > /usr/share/man/man1/foobar.1 > /etc/foobarrc > (...) > > he would like to install it the files in > > prefix/bin/foobar > prefix/share/man/man1/foobar.1 > prefix/etc/foobarrc (or even $Prefix/.config/foobarrc) > (...) > > and that if foobar depends on bazbaz, then with an appropriate apt-get > command, bazbaz can be installed in the same prefix. > > > While I would also love to have this feature in Debian, it is indeed > offtopic on this list and should better be a wishlist bug of apt-get, > aptitude, or any other frontend to dpkg. If I understand you correctly reading the examples given above, I believe you are looking for --instdir=dir option of dpkg. The above-mentioned frontends could pass it to dpkg if necessary. This could be only useful for any weirds experiments, and in all other cases I prefer chroot'ing to a given directory and install/reinstall at will; cowbuilder is your friend. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
