On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:31 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > Thanks, this is what I was unsure about. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
