[ltp] Installing rpms in alternate directories

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, James McKenzie wrote:

> Ok, I really need to read the man pages.  I still have a question though.  I
> want to install /usr/lib in /opt/lib under FC2.  Has anyone done this,
> successfully.  I know about symlinks, but some programs will fail with
> "mysterious" errors.  I don't plan on moving /usr/lib/X11R6 or any of the
> subdirectories under it. 
> The reason I want to do this is I'm running out of space in the root (/)
> directory and I don't want to rebuild the system, again.  I just spend a week
> recovering from my last attempt.  I really would like to do a clean install,
> but FC3 is supposed to be released in about a week, and test 3 is out there
> now.

looks like you are looking for:

rpm --relocate /usr=/opt foo.rpm

But how about mounting the new partition as /usr and transfer current
files over to the new partition by booting off rescue/knoppix-cd - and
using 'rsync -a' to copying over?

Satish