On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:12 -0500, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:23 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > It's not hard to build your own RPM to update your system. I downloaded > > the SRPM for 1.14 and the tarball for 1.15.1, updated the tar specfile > > and a couple of the patches and then built a new RPM for version 1.15.1. > > The result can be found at: http://www.city-fan.org/~paul/tar/ > > > > It works for me but of course YMMV as I've done very little testing. > > Most of the testsuite is run during the build though and the tests that > > are run do pass. > > Rolling your own would be my recommendation in this case as well. Just > try to customize the release tag in the spec file so you can > differentiate between a home-rolled rpm and an official one. Adding a release tag makes it *easier* to distinguish a home-rolled RPM from an official one but you could still tell the difference anyway by using the --info (-i) query in RPM and look at the packager information (assuming you package your own RPMs properly...): $ rpm -qip some.rpm $ rpm -qi some-installed-package-name Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
