On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Colin Palmer wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Greig McGill wrote:
BUT - and there's always a but - there are no nice RPMs from RedHat for it. I've done a source build of X before on a "roll-yer-own" distro, but never tried to upgrade X under RH before. What is the best/easiest way to do this without breaking anything?
The _best_ way is to get hold of the .spec file from the 4.0.1 source RPM, tweak it as necessary for anything that might have changed in 4.0.3 then use that, along with tarballs of the 4.0.3 source and the rpm command to build your own RPMs, which you then upgrade to via the normal methods.
The _easiest_ way is to wait for someone else (eg RedHat themselves) to make those RPMs for you. :)
LOL...yeah, thanks Colin! :P I must admit, the .spec idea is a bit of lateral thinking...well done that man! I hate the thought of wading through the nightmares of dependencies though... -- ----------------------------------- Greig McGill Three things to remember: Green, No, and with a spring. ------------ WLUG - The Waikato Linux Users Group To unsubscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with "unsubscribe wlug" in the body of the message.