[CentOS] reinstall packages

[Paul Heinlein]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote:

> I have some rpm packages that I built locally.  After installing and 
> configuring them, I found a problem that required a source patch. 
> I have rebuilt the rpms, but since they have the same version number 
> as the original, I can't use "yum localupdate" to install them.  Is 
> there a clean way to do this with yum, or do I just need to remove 
> the old packages and then install the new ones?

Is there a reason you didn't bump the Release: header in the .spec 
file? That's the typical mechanism for declaring one binary rpm newer 
than another.

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