On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:01 -0600, Rebecca Bendick wrote: > How would I rebuild the src.rpm to force installation of the one > library that I need? you start by creating an rpmbuild environment in your home directory: yum install fedora-rpmdevtools as NON ROOT user: fedora-buildrpmtree Then you need to get the appropriate src.rpm - in this case - libX11-1.0.0-3.src.rpm I think it is in http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/source/SRPMS/ as your regular user, not as root, install the src.rpm This will put the sources and patches in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ and a spec file in ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/ you need to modify the spec file in ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/ with a text editor. 1) change the release tag - put a .1 after whatever is there already (Release, not version) 2) depends upon the package. If in %build section, there is --disable-static passed to configure, change the --disable-static to --enable-static Sometimes they way they get rid of static libraries is to simply delete them in the %install section after install - in which case you need to remove the lines that delete them. 3) modify the %files sections for the devel subpackage. Add this to it: %{_libdir}/*.a now - you can rebuild the rpm - cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/ rpmbuild -bb libX11.spec If it complains about missing BuildRequires, you have to install them. When it finishes, it will put the rpms in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/arch/ (where arch is i386,x86_64, or ppc) then upgrade stock libX11 and libX11-devel rpms with what you have built.
