On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 17:47 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:38:49 -0800 > Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > You may also want to look up the old-as-dirt --relocate parameter to > > RPM. You could try using it, and watch it explode in more cases than > > not. But RPM packages are (or were) (at least in theory) supposed to > > be relocatable whenever this is practical, and all the machinery is > > still there, buried in the tools and spec format... > > Actually Fedora packages are (for the vast majority) not relocatable. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Relocatable_packages > > It never worked well. :( > > You could of course download src.rpms and rebuild them with Prefix.
Yeah, hence the 'watch it explode in more cases than not'...but it seemed like a useful thing to point him to, as background if nothing else, and as probably the mechanism he wants to use if he wants to make some Fedora packages relocatable. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
