why is database location under /${prefix} ?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Rob Maidment wrote:

> 
> I have built RPM 4.7.0 and installed it as per the instructions in the
> INSTALL file, culminating in a successful call to “make install”.  My
> linux is “from scratch”, the kernel version is 2.6.27.4. 
> 
> Following the install of RPM there is no RPM database (the Packages file
> does not exist anywhere).  If I execute “rpm --initdb” a folder called
> “${prefix}” (literally, but without the quotes) is created under root and
> I end up with the following files:
> 
>  
> 
> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/Packages
> 
> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.000
> 
> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.001
> 
> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.002
> 
> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.003
> 
> /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm/__db.004
> 
>  
> 
> If I then try to install a package I get the following error: “ERROR:
> Cannot get shared lock on RPM Database.”
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know why my database is in such a strange location, and why I
> cannot install any packages?

This is obviously a bug that needs fixing, but giving an explicit 
prefix such as --prefix=/usr to ./configure should work.

 	- Panu -