Package Management

John Dangler jdangler at atlantic.net
Thu Jul 22 03:00:21 UTC 2004


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On Behalf Of William Hooper
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:52 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Package Management


John Dangler said:
>> In reading the man pages for rpm, I didn't see a way to take a package
>> currently in the rpm database and sync it with one that I've downloaded
>> and installed from source.

>RPM handles RPM packages.  If you want to use the rpm database you must
>create RPM packages of the new package.  End of story.

>If you just need to change compile time options, download the src.rpm
>packages and rebuild them with your options.  If you want newer versions,
>use those src.rpms as a starting point.

>Your other option is to deal with the dependencies yourself from source and
>just not install RPMs.

It seems that this would imply building my own repository of rpm's that I've
installed.  It makes sense, although when a newer srpm is introduced, that
could present a problem... but, that may be the nature of the beast.

--
William Hooper


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