On May 29, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:

> So would it make sense to create a patch that allowed rpm{,5} to be
> installed into any random location and then it can just discover it's
> path and work properly from there?  (I have some experience with  
> this.)
>

Yes, you do have the experience. ;-)

> The two issues are loading the shared libraries properly as well as  
> the
> rpmpopt file.  In the past I've dealt with the first by either
> statically compiling RPM, or adding a small shell wrapper that  
> discovers
> it's path and setups LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately.
>

Yep. The goal is a clean, legacy compatible, install for the rpm-4_5  
branch
that does not touch the existing vendor rpm.

73 de Jeff