I'm trying to install libvirt to /opt/libvirt, in order to test a patch I've worked into the current release, but it seems RPM is ignoring the --prefix command.

The RPM I built has "Prefix: /opt/libvirt" in the spec, and correctly shows as relocatable by RPM...

# rpm -qpi libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64.rpm Name : libvirt Relocations: /opt/libvirt Version : 0.8.1 Vendor: (none) Release : 27.el6.6 Build Date: Fri 09 Sep 2011 07:30:28 PM CDT Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: itsclinuxdev.tamu.edu Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6.6.src.rpm Size : 2538412 License: LGPLv2+ Signature : (none) URL : http://libvirt.org/ Summary : Library providing a simple API virtualization Description : Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The main package includes the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support.

However when I issue the RPM command it will throw errors about conflicting with the current install of libvirt.

# rpm -ivh --prefix /opt/libvirt libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0.8.1 from install of libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/virsh.1.gz from install of libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/virt-pki-validate.1.gz from install of libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/virt-xml-validate.1.gz from install of libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64

The patch I worked into libvirt is here, http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-July/msg00480.html (not my posting), to add ESXi and ESX 4.1 support , in my case to virt-v2v. I'd like to install it without possibly breaking my current install of libvirt and just use the patched virt-v2v binary.

As a side note, where should I direct my patch to possibly have it put into the official centos release? I had to slightly modify what was posted in the above link to make it work with 0.8.1.

Thanks - Trey