Hello Thomas, Monday, March 04, 2002, 12:16:49 PM, you textually orated:
BTG> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 11:23, Ed Wilts wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:52:24AM -0500, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: >> > >> > I downloaded the .src.rpm files, did a "rpm --rebuild foo.src.rpm", >> > and now have foo.rpm in my /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 directory. How do BTG> I >> > tell rpm to install/upgrade/freshen these files over the versions that BTG> are >> > currently residing on my box? (i'm going from the standard 386 binaries BTG> to >> > recompiled for PII binaries). >> >> This is done the same way you install/upgrade/freshen any other rpm. Just BTG> cd >> to the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 directory and do an rpm -F or rpm -U. >> >> If the version does not appear to be newer than what was installed, you BTG> may >> need to either --force the upgrade, or do an rpm -e on your existing BTG> version >> and then an rpm -i on the new version. I'm guessing this is the situation... You got package foo-2.3-1 installed on your system. You downloaded foo-2.3-1.src.rpm to recompile. You are attempting to install foo-2.3-1.i686.rpm. Why this wont work right away is that RPM can't distinguish the packages from each other. I don't believe that --force can override that. You have two options... 1. Use the --replacepkgs flag. This will tell it to install a package that is already installed. This is not preferred because it means that any system you wish to upgrade this way you will do the same thing. 2. Fix the RPM you made. What you should do is update the "release" flag in the spec file. This will make sure that RPM will know that this package is different from the one you may already have installed. Then just rebuild the RPM and go. RPM can not distinguish based on the arch flag. It can on the version and release. Since you didn't actually change the version, the release flag will tell RPM that this is a newer/different version. Hope that helps. Have fun, -- _________________________________________________________________ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
