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Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server ProjectGentoo and the Linux Terminal Server ProjectPosted Jan 11, 2007 16:32 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346)In reply to: Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project by ldo Parent article: Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project
An RPM needs to support this for it to work, and my understanding is that many of them don't. Gentoo's ROOT working is mandated by our policy.
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Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project Posted Jan 11, 2007 21:48 UTC (Thu) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link] >An RPM needs to support this for it to work, and my understanding What does an RPM file need to do to support an alternative installroot? Nothing. The RPM system itself does all the work.
Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project Posted Jan 12, 2007 1:03 UTC (Fri) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] I spent a couple minutes doing research today, and I think I confused RPM's "root" support with its "relocatable" support. Easy enough to do, since I've never used either. =)
Gentoo and the Linux Terminal Server Project Posted Jan 13, 2007 0:49 UTC (Sat) by emj (guest, #14307) [Link] What you cant do with yum and apt is to add a --prefix=/opt/gaim/2.4.0 when installing anapplication. That's the only good thing about Gentoo.
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