[rhelv6-list] rebuilt package not showing selected for update

[Greg Bailey]

On 12/9/2010 4:08 PM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote:
>
> I have been rebuilding the “ksh” RPM starting in RHEL5.0 (thru 
> RHEL5.5) to change the behavior of he builtin “echo” command. This has 
> never been an issue, I just plunk the rebuilt RPM file down in our 
> local YUM repo, run createrepo and a ‘yum update’ will detect the 
> package and install it, replacing the existing ksh package.
>
> For some reason I can’t figure out, this is not working in RHEL6... I 
> was able to rebuild it fine, but after putting everything in place, 
> ‘yum check-update’ does not see it.
>
> The command I used to rebuild is:
>
> rpmbuild --define 'dist .el6' -bb ksh.spec
>
> I’ve tried re-running the createrepo, running ‘yum clean all’, etc... 
> no luck.
>
> Info from the package:
>
> # rpm -qip 
> /redhat/RedHatServer6/RHEL6.0/x86_64/rebuild/ksh-20100621-2.el6.x86_64.rpm 
>
>
> Name : ksh Relocations: (not relocatable)
>
> Version : 20100621 Vendor: (none)
>
> Release : 2.el6 Build Date: Thu Dec 9 12:15:31 2010
>
> Info from the installed package
>
> # rpm -qi ksh
>
> Name : ksh Relocations: (not relocatable)
>
> Version : 20100621 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
>
> Release : 2.el6 Build Date: Tue Jun 29 07:40:26 2010
>
> Any ideas would be helpful....
>

Unless I'm missing something, the version you built and the Red Hat 
provided one are the same version/release combination, right? If that's 
the case, the one you just built wouldn't appear any "newer" than the 
one built by Red Hat, and there would be no upgrade required.

-Greg