How can I install in a different directory with my RPM file?

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 20 16:04:30 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:33 +0530, kali c wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have created a SPEC file that contains the lines,
> 
> %files
> /usr/bin/myFile1
> /usr/bin/myFile2
> 
> And I can build the SPEC file without any errors. But after installing the
> RPM package through "yum", the files reside as such specified in the files
> section.
> By that I mean, myFile1 resides in /usr/bin and myFile2 resides in /usr/bin,
> rightly so.
> 
> But if while installing can i specify some path, so that it resides in the
> specified directory.
> 
> Say can I specify a directory /disk1/myFolder so that the installed files
> will be like, /disk1/myFolder/myFile1 and so..
> 
> How can I specify a user defined directory while installing it and what
> changes I have to make in the SPEC file to achieve that?

 In theory you can use --relocate etc. to achieve this. In practise,
don't do it in rpms. In theory 0install is built for that kind of
insanity.



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