-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Niki Kovacs Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:02 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] How to handle updates after rebuilding PHP?
Hi,
One of our applications has some very specific requirements regarding PHP, so I had to rebuild it to add some functionality that's not included in the default configuration.
First thing I removed every PHP-related package that was installed on the system:
# yum remove `rpm -qa | grep php`
Then I downloaded the PHP SRPM from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/os/SRPMS/ and installed it.
Next I installed all the build dependencies using yum-builddep.
I edited php.spec according to my needs and then built PHP:
# rpmbuild -bb --clean php.spec
Finally, I installed the resulting packages using 'rpm -ivh', in that order:
- php-common - php-cli - php - php-ldap
Problem: when I run 'yum check-update', Yum wants to update these php packages immediately, with some packages coming from [base] (not from [updates]). I'm puzzled, because PHP is not in [updates], only in [base].
Now I know I could simply add a line to /etc/yum.conf, something like:
exclude=php-*
But I *do* want to be notified somehow in case there's an update to PHP, so I can download the new SRPM from the updates/ directory and then rebuild it again.
Any suggestions about this?
Niki
PS: on my desktop I use Arch Linux, where I have some individually rebuilt packages. When I do this, I simply increase the build number, so my packages don't get squashed, but I get an update notification when a new version is available. Maybe this is the way to go, but I don't know how I would do this with RPM. ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- I think Yum is doing what is called replacing the package because it thinks it is not a centos built rpm. This does infact happen if when RHEL OS is pointed to use and update from the centos repo. Even the base packages get replaced with the centos one even though they are the same build binary and by version number.
Maybe an option for updated source rpms is point yum to the sources repo instead of binary. Optionally you could specify wget with the file list option to fetch the named src.rpm new version then attach that to a cron job. Maybe someone else has an easier way of doing this?
John Stanley
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