using rpms for non-root installs

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:38:49 -0800
Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> You may also want to look up the old-as-dirt --relocate parameter to
> RPM. You could try using it, and watch it explode in more cases than
> not. But RPM packages are (or were) (at least in theory) supposed to
> be relocatable whenever this is practical, and all the machinery is
> still there, buried in the tools and spec format...

Actually Fedora packages are (for the vast majority) not relocatable. 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Relocatable_packages

It never worked well. :( 

You could of course download src.rpms and rebuild them with Prefix. 

kevin

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