Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I have to build my own rpms > > For this I will have to work with the developers to find out where the > spec file is and how to change it without breaking something (or get > them to change it!). If you can build the RPM, you do have access to the spec file. If you're building directly from a .src.rpm with rpmbuild, it's embedded in the .src.rpm making things a little tougher. Best is if you're building from some kind of source tree and so have the .spec file right there. >> On the other hand --replacepkgs or --oldpackage might work. > This must require some yum plugin??? as --replacepkgs is not documented > on my systems, nor does it work. These are rpm options, not yum options: rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs my-custom-thing-1.0-1.i386.rpm