Thomas Bergstam schrieb: > Refering to the earlier subjects on RPMs and 2.6: > > I have Suse 11.1 which includes Postfix 2.5.5. It is not easy to > uninstall that (YAST wants to replace it with EXIM or SENDMAIL) due to > dependencies. Is it possible to just upgrade it if I manually compile > 2.6.1 and replace the old one? Or do I break any librarys or anything > else? > > > > wait until the rpm is in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/mail/openSUSE_11.1/ ( you can have this as additional source in yast) ask the build service to force the building alternative download the latest src rpm change the spec to match 2.6.1 download 2.6.1 sources tar(gz,bz) in the source, rebuild with rpmbuild -ba postfix.spec you may have to install others libs before too to solve depecies for recompile mostly this works, then update with rpm -U but dont forget this might brake you existing postfix setup etc , so test it before, and/or make backups, in a testing server ( vmware etc )
-- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
