On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 08:37, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Sorry, I shouldn't have asked the question. I was just looking for a > friendly advice. First you might peek at the stock srpm to see if it already includes the fix you need. RedHat/fedora sometimes back bugfixes into earlier versions without bumping the version numbers. Then if you still need the newer version, just build the tarball in /usr/local/bin (the usual default) and it won't interfere with rpm dependencies. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx