Debian snuggles up to Fedora?

Doncho N. Gunchev mr700 at globalnet.bg
Tue Oct 28 07:15:56 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 28 October 2003 09:05, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:47:39 +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> > AFIK rpm in rh8 was not able to relocate packages at all and
>
> Whether a package is relocatable depends on whether it was made
> relocatable. Many packages from independent packagers are flagged
> reloctable, but are not really relocatable actually. Often they access
> files via hardcoded non-relocated paths or depend on files in
> non-relocated locations.
I mean with relocatable packages - check kylix rpms and release notes if you 
don't belive me ;) I 'installed' it and it 'relocated' all files to my '/' 
dir :) This was fixed in rh9.

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Regards,
  Doncho N. Gunchev





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