On 05/30/2010 05:43 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg informed us:
MHR wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Robertkerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote:
O.K., errands finished, the rebuilt rpm installed using yum --nogpgcheck localupdate /path/to/rpm with no problems, no dependencies. Mail, preferences, plugins and helpers work as far as I've tested. And email address hinting is fixed! Many thanks..
you're welcome, glad it helped!
I am glad to hear this, but it really would have been a whole lot simpler just to install the official release tarball....
rpmbuild --rebuild isn't so complicated, and I find having almost everything in rpms is comfortable. Also, once the rpm is built on one system you can install it everywhere. That can be very convenient, depending on how many desktops/laptops you have.
That, plus, if there are any unsatisfied dependencies, they'll get pulled in from trusted repos. I'll admit that that is probably unlikely with an updated CentOS 5 and Seamonkey, but having been burned really bad, trying to cram CUPS into RedHat 7.2, I try to avoid tarballs unless they're part of a well-documented procedure such as that published by ATI (AMD) for their proprietary video drivers. Even then, I elect to create an RPM and install it. Old farts gather a lot of paranoias, Marc. Thanks for pushing me off TDC, though, and thanks even more for the "hung sound" info!