source RPMs and updating
brian
fedora at logi.ca
Thu Jan 22 04:39:42 UTC 2009
Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 22:30 -0500, brian wrote:
>> I've built my own Postfix package from SRPM and have recently
>> updated it. To do so, I used the newer SRPM and repeated the
>> process.
>>
>> But, I'm wondering if, once a package has been built, can it be
>> updated using a pre-built RPM without losing the specs used to
>> build the original? Or, will the newer RPM simply override
>> everything according to how it was built?
>>
>> Just to clarify, the original built-from-source package was:
>> postfix-2.5.1-1.sasl2.spf.fc8.i386.rpm
>>
>> I downloaded a newer SRPM, built and installed:
>> postfix-2.5.6-1.sasl2.spf.fc8.i386.rpm
>>
>> But, could I have simply done:
>>
>> rpm -Uvh postfix-2.5.6-1.fc8.i386.rpm
>>
>> ... and had rpm take care to install in the same manner as was the
>> original SRPM?
> ---- you asked...
>
>> Or, will the newer RPM simply override everything according to how
>> it was built?
>
> I believe the answer here is yes. If you were to install the
> pre-built binaries, the features included are only the ones in the
> spec file used by the packager who built it.
What I should have asked, actually, was, is there some flag that I can
use when updating that will cause rpm to use the spec that the
already-installed package was built with?
Anyway, no biggie. I was just curious.
> by the way...Fedora 8 will no longer receive any updates which means
> that security updates will bypass you.
>
> It's time to upgrade the whole system.
~sigh~ yeah, that time again.
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