[Yum-devel] YUM support RPM relocation

[Astrom]

Now I can only install the packages by "rpm --prefix / --nodeps" one by one.
So no dependency checking.
I want to use YUM to check dependency and update

thanks,
---Astrom Cheng


On 10/12/07, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
>
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