On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Stefan Westmeier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just verified in my environment: works there as well!!
>
> By the way: --noparentdirs is necessary. Otherwise there are  
> complaints about missing
> depdencies for directories. Did not find any hint in man page or -- 
> help output.
>

Yep.

The easiest survival path with dependencies on parent directories is
to run
     mkdir -p /etc/rpm/sysinfo
     rpm -Va --orphandirs > /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Dirnames

The better fix is to add some package (like filesystem)
that "owns" the directories.

73 de Jeff