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Old 11-21-2008, 01:20 PM   #1
sandricky
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Making the - - prefix option required when installing an RPM package


We packaged up some of our scripts that our company uses. In the %files section of the spec file the files contain a path that will most likely not be used by some of our target users. We have added the Prefix: option to allow them to install in it another location with the --prefix option and it works great. The question is can we somehow make the --prefix option a required option when trying to install the RPM?

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Old 11-22-2008, 10:09 PM   #2
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Try looking at http://rpm.org/wiki/Docs#PackagerDocumentation. You may find the answer you need and more there.
 
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(Well within necroposting limits I hope) AFAIK .spec "Prefix:" != RPM CLI arg "--prefix" but "--reloc". In any case using something like this:
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%pre
if [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
	grep -q -- "--reloc" /proc/`pgrep rpm`/cmdline
else
will make RPM skip installing the package on script error. This is in no way an "official" method, can be bypassed easily using "--noscripts" (though you can test for that as well) and can be easily thwarted if you have multiple 'rpm' commands running (though you could 'pgrep -f packagename_and_rpm-args').
 
Old 02-09-2009, 01:24 AM   #4
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Thumbs up Going with it.

Thanks, I've read and I asked but nothing that I found can make the --prefix a required option except adding the script option as unSpawn suggested. Thanks, I think I will go with it.
 
  


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