Re: Question: Can dpkg relocate package

[Soraia Paz <sopaz@cisco.com>]

Oh, I got thrown off by the fact that it said that it defaults to 
/var/lib/dpkg. Okay that helps
a lot thanks.

Is there also a way of letting the postinst, preinst, postrm and prerm 
scripts of knowing
what the new install path would be? Thanks


At 06/21/2001, Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed wrote:
> [Soraia Paz wrote...]
> -| Yes,
> -|
> -|          I can convert the .rpm to .deb with alien and that works okay, 
> but
> -| the scripts that run before and after install/uninstall don't run with 
> dpkg.
> -| So I've decided that I'm better off just creating Debian packages.
> -| But now I can't find out how I would go about installing somewhere other
> -| than the default location. I'm even a bit sketchy on specifying
> -| the default install location. For example, if I wanted to install in /opt
> -| by default would I just create a directory structure /opt/myProgram?
> -| And if the user wants to install it somewhere else, is there an option 
> for this?
> -|
> -| Thanks
> -|
>
> doesn't the --admindir option do what you want?
>
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