[ale] rpm equivalent of dpkg-divert?

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

a combo of yumdownloader and rpm  --relocate will let you have manual
control over the location of the installed rpms. There is no way (or reason
in the rpm-land) to rename the installed files as that is part of the
process to avoid name-space clashes.


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> Is anyone aware of a redhat/rpm equivalent of debian/dpkg's dpkg-divert
> command? An example of what I want to accomplish is
>
> > To  divert  all  copies  of a /usr/bin/example to /usr/bin/example.foo,
> >        i.e. directs all packages providing /usr/bin/example to install
>  it  as
> >        /usr/bin/example.foo, performing the rename if required:
> >
> >        dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/example.foo --rename
> /usr/bin/example
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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