Hi,
On 2 Mar 1999, Graham Murray wrote:
> > YaST's capability of unpacking .tgz-Archives is a leftover from ancient
> > times, when Software Packages where gzipped tar Archives (like Slackware
> > has). These Packages contained the whole directory structure and binaries
> > as well as pre- and postinstall scripts. It was never intended to be used
> > for _source_-Packages. This would be a hard job, since every source
> > package requires different rules on how to make a binary of it and has
> > a different directory structure...
>
> True, but it would nice if there was some way to tell Yast that a
> previously installed package has been upgraded by a source compile.
Well, then use RPM! You can install the source RPM of the previous version
and modifiy the spec-File to use the new source tgz. Now rebuild the
package and install the new RPM afterwards. Most of the time, there's not
much more to do than changing the release number of the source package.
There is an article in our SDB, which covers this issue:
http://www.suse.de/sdb/en/html/ke_source-rpm.html
Also have a look in Donnie's excellent RPM-HOWTO and the Book "Maximum
RPM", which is also available in PostScript on http://www.rpm.org
Bye,
LenZ
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