On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 06:39:11PM -0400, John Dangler wrote: > 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. I'm reading the man pages on yum to see if this is > possible, but haven't noticed it yet (although yum provides <name> is a > great resource!). I've read some articles attempting to explain this but for > some reason I'm not getting it. Can anyone here shed a little light on the > subject for me please? > > e.g. - I have httpd and php installed as part of the original FC2 distro, > but needed to add xml/xslt support for some architecture development. I > downloaded the latest sources for Apache,Sablot,and PHP. I'd like to now > tell rpm/yum that I have an updated version so that they know. As an aside, > I'd like to expand the repositories that yum looks to for installs/updates. > I'm searching for a list, but haven't found one. Is there a 'collective' > repository site somewhere on the web that has a list like this? (I > currently have ATrpms, FC2-base, FC2-released upates). If you installed atrpms-package-config you will get access to (depending on distribution) up to a dozen repos. For FC2 not all repos offer rpms, and not all of them offer than in yum metadata format (e.g. some require apt). Try yum install atrpms-package-config apt and merge /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew with /etc/yum.conf (or simply copy it over). -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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