problems passing --prefix to rpm::options to apt-get

[Andrei Kazarov]

>Relocation, among some other relatively rare options simply aren't
>implemented for the "internal package manager" which calls rpmlib
>directly for install/remove etc operations. 
>
>You can try using additional "-o rpm::pm=external" option which causes
>apt to call the actual rpm binary for installs so the options passed in
>rpm::options will get interpreted by rpm itself instead of apt. But ..
>this is the first time I remember hearing anybody trying to use package
>relocations with apt so it might not work quite as expected, I certainly
>haven't tested it ever.
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>
Thanks for suggestion.
I tried and it did not work for me.
I wonder if it is possible to pass needed options to native package 
manager (RPM in my case) via ~/.rpmrc?

Cheers
            Andrei


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