Paul Heinlein wrote:
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.
Because I don't know anything about building packages beyond running "rpmbuild". All I did was download the tarfile, extract it, patch it, retar it, and run rpmbuild.
Is the Release: header the only thing I need to change? I looked into that briefly, but I wasn't sure if there was anything else that would need to be updated.
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote:
Is the Release: header the only thing I need to change? I looked into that briefly, but I wasn't sure if there was anything else that would need to be updated.
You already figured out the harder part (patching), so yes, modify the release header and rebuild. Add a changelog entry to and perhaps a note to the summary so the next sysadmin who is researching one of your boxes will know what you did.
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