--- Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com 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?
-- Bowie
When building your own custom rpms it is best to do them "properly". 6 months down the road you may have made forgotten what you did.
For example the SRPM for Fedora for samba from samba.org :-
$ rpm -q --changelog samba the changes are in cvs
Pretty useful that is when you are trying to discover the patches/bugs that were fixed? You get the drift.
Or for example reading about the sendmail exploit and wanting to see if you are covered :-
$ rpm -q --changelog sendmail | grep CVE zilch
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