Relocate an rpm

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Hi,

I have a relocatable rpm that I would like to install into a different directory.

I have read that Yum doesn’t really support this and a solution with yum is to use

yum install XXX --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp

Then use rpm and --prefix

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/yum/#relocatable

I was wondering if there was any way of doing this with the core yum module.

I appreciate that changing the install directory is not the best approach but I have customers with non-standard release directories.

My solution at the moment would be to use command and do things more manually for this pesky rpm.

Thanks

James

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Yeah, the command module and either using yum --downloadonly or using
yumdownloader (from the yum-utils package) followed by rpm is the way
to go here. Adding a means for the yum module to download an rpm is
probably a reasonable feature enhancement but it doesn't exist at the
moment so the command module is the way to go.

-Toshio

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Ok thanks for the reply. I’ll try and avoid doing it in the first place but if I can’t do that I’ll use one of the two options you mention.

I’ve already used yumdownloader elsewhere to build a custom repo.

Thanks