I am looking in my trusty linux in a nutshell and see that typing --root with an rpm file will presumably install in a specified directory? I want to upgrade some rpm files on a managed server and need it to happen in the virtual directory rather than the server's root. Can anyone tell me yeah or neah? Paul -- De omnibus dubitandum
--- Paul Taylor
I am looking in my trusty linux in a nutshell and see that typing --root with an rpm file will presumably install in a specified directory? I want to
upgrade some rpm files on a managed server and need it to happen in the virtual directory rather than the server's root. Can anyone tell me yeah or neah?
I think I see what you're asking, so yes it can happen, but can you provide more details as to what a "virtual directory" is? -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
On Monday 08 November 2004 15:21, Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Paul Taylor
wrote: I am looking in my trusty linux in a nutshell and see that typing --root with an rpm file will presumably install in a specified directory? I want to
upgrade some rpm files on a managed server and need it to happen in the virtual directory rather than the server's root. Can anyone tell me yeah or neah?
I think I see what you're asking, so yes it can happen, but can you provide more details as to what a "virtual directory" is?
I did solve this one in the end on my own and thought I might but it is always useful to add to the general pool of knowledge, be it big or small. I have a managed server which I use for hosting web sites. We are a business and enterprise school and my 6th form students sell, design and manage web sites for companies and schools locally. On the server, I assume under Apache, there are /home/vhosts/blah.blah.com directories for each client. On my school site (one of those directories) I am running EGroupWare (excellent Open Source software btw). On the site it has upgrades for .bin. .rpm and .gz. I don't know why but I thought as the server is Fedora that rpms would do the trick but then thought that they are pre-packaged and would presumably unload their files into /usr/local or whatever. As it happened, and what I should have realised before posting, was that ssh and .gz unloads it exactly where you want it. The result is a newly updated and happy EGroupWare client on the site that I wanted. Thanks again for your replies, always helpful.
-- Thomas Adam
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