Source Installs and RPM Issue
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Aug 12 14:41:56 EDT 2002
IMHO your best bet is to just build a new RPM with the
updated sources and then "rpm -Fvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/<new-rpm>"
to update it.
-derek
Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at attbi.com> writes:
> Sometimes, I need to upgrade a core component like OpenSSL by
> compiling the source rather than installing a new RPM. However, there
> are several packages like sendmail that depend on OpenSSL. As a
> result, I can't just 'rpm -e' the old RPM version and install the new
> version from the source. What is the best way to manage this?
> Perhaps, the solution is to build an RPM from the source and than
> install that instead? I would hate to have to uninstall all the RPM
> dependencies and then rebuild them all so there has to be a better
> solution.
>
> Robert
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