Bruno Galindro da Costa writes:
Sam,When you mean 'nuke all other files' what do you want to mean? Delete all other files? If I download the source package (e.g. bash-3.2-24.el5.src.rpm for Red Hat 5), install it, grab only the spec file and put it in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ directory, put all other files in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ directory and try to do a rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/bash.spec, could it work?
Yes. And you will end up with a perfectly valid bash rpm package.Unfortunately, you will not be able to install it. That's because the package will install /bin/bash, and you already have this file installed by your existing bash rpm. This is the fundamental function of rpm: to prevent different packages from installing conflicting files and overwriting each other.
And not just /bin/bash, but also the corresponding man page, the locale files, and all other files that you seen when you run "rpm -q -l bash".
That's why I told you that you need to modify the spec file so that the final bash binary gets installed as /bin/bash3, so as to not conflict with your existing bash interpreter, as well as remove all other files from your bash 3 rpm package, so that the only thing that your newly-built bash rpm would install is /bin/bash3.
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