[NBLUG/talk] rpm question

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Fri Dec 5 10:25:01 PST 2003


No problem, since you primarily use Debian how could/would the same thing be 
accomplished with debian?

On Friday 05 December 2003 01:14, ME wrote:
> Good information. It is no secret I primarily use Debian, so it is good to
> hear about some of the methods to deal with these things in RedHat. Thanks
> Mark!


> Mark Street said:
> > On Thursday 04 December 2003 21:04, ME wrote:
> >> If you  overlay one RPM over another that was built using the specfile
> >> with mods, what happens when an up2date or security update is performed?
> >
> > It depends on how you have it configured I would imagine.  You probably
> > wouldn't want it to automatically overwrite your custom packages, thus
> > exclude them from update.
> >
> >> Is the update manager smart enough to know that the version installed is
> >> a
> >> custom build so that it will not overwrite it with a "newer security
> >> update" that does not have interbase support? If so, does it tell the
> >> user
> >> that they will need to manually rebuild a new copy of a php plugin with
> >> a
> >> new src rpm that has been patched?
> >
> > Ha!  I doubt it.  The updater is not going to tell you that you have
> > customized a package unless you hack the version number when you create
> > it.
> > Most updaters look at the arch and version and make a decision.
> >
> > From what I have seen, It looks like apt for rpm may have limited
> > abilities
> > for building source rpm packages into rpms.  I know you can have apt
> > download
> > .src.rpms.
> >
> >  Source {
> >         Build-Command "rpmbuild --rebuild";
> >     };
> >
> > This does not solve the issue of editing the .spec file to build the new
> > source code and package though.
> >
> >> If not, what is the suggested method for staying with custome RPM and
> >> security updates.
> >
> > When an update becomes available download the src rpm with your favorite
> > updater, apt, yum, redcarpet, ftp, http, edit the .spec file, rebuild it
> > and
> > install it.
>
> [chop]
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