[Yum-devel] YUM support RPM relocation

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 10:19 +0800, Astrom wrote:
> Hello all,
>  
> I am a newbie to YUM, rpm, and python.
> Now I want to install RPM packages by YUM. 
> When checking these RPM files by "rpm -qpi", I find there is a
> relocation, but I want to set these relocation to "/".
> BTW, I only has binary RPM files. I don't want to build them from SRC
> again because there are more than 600 rpm files.
>  
> I check RPM python interface, and don't find which API supports RPM
> relocation.
> ( Maybe I am dummy and not find the API. )
>  
> Is there such API in YUM to support  RPM relocation ? 
> If no, how to add one ?
>  


I don't know that any of the automated dependency solvers do anything to
handle relocations. The majority of the reason is that nothing handles
relocations properly at all. It's a 'feature' of rpm but not really used
anymore.

-sv