[rpm-list] RPM Help

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu Jan 5 08:50:35 UTC 2012


On 01/05/2012 08:05 AM, dfsd dfd wrote:
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> Any package, or even ' rpm --rebuilddb' or 'rpm --initdb', even if the packages fails to install. It's makes me think it is a problem with the software. It is not exchanging variables. I know that it is not the packages fault and I've looked at all of the install rpm files that were editable in a text editor but could not find ${prefix} only %[[{prefix]]}} and similar. If I delete the folder then type rpm --rebuilddb then it creates a folder
> ${prefix}/var/lib/rpm and puts the data base files, *_db, in it. Thanks.

This is a bug in the build process of rpm itself. Rebuild rpm with 
explicit --localstatedir=/var to configure to work around it.

	- Panu -


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