[ale] back to rpm prefix questions

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

If you folks are aware of any rpm related mailing lists (pref SUSE) but
redhat is ok too, it would help.

I am needing information on envvironment variable, prefix etc.,

-N

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com>wrote:

> Friends:
>
> Thanks for your time and attention in advance.
>
> Here is the scenario.
>
> a. I have created a RPM for apache-tomcat-7.0.42 and it installs.
> (relocatable package)
>
> b. I have to now create a RPM for the applications aka the
> wars.(non-relocatable)
>
> It has the dependency on the above apache-tomcat-7.0.42.rpm package.  I
> have that mentioned in the Requires tag.
> Now I need to know where the package mentioned in the line above is
> installed.
>
> I need that because relative to that location of where the package in
> line-a is installed I have to install the war files.
>
> I know that in the %pre line of war-rpm, I can do somethings.  I can do
> rpm-qip of the line-a package and get the install location.  The question
> is how to make it available to subsequent sections.
>
> Essentially I need to know where package in line-a is installed and how
> can I get that variable and make it available to subsequent sections of
> line-b package.
>
> -N
>
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