On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:38:47 -0500 "Ron Rogers Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was going to update gnupg from 1.4.5 to 1.4.9 the usual way > with a source install, when I thought that maybe I could help > the community by doing an rpm of it. So I found a src rpm and > tried to build it but it needed gettext-devel (which is in our > repos) and autoconf 2.60+. got me an autoconf src rpm and tried > building that but it needed a newer M4 so I grabbed that. > > That built, but I'm not for certain how to properly install or > test it. I can always do an rpm -ivh --force of course, but > that isn't the proper way, I think. I tried yum localupdate > m4foo, but it refuses to install stating conflicts with the > installed M4. I'm probably missing something simple. I'm just > used to installing everything from source and not using packages. > > > Ron Rogers Jr. > use rpm -Uvh (U is upgrade it will upgrade the package as opposed to i which is just install) re: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-upgrade.html p.s. max-rpm is a good 'book' on rpm defintely worth a read in (ha!) free time... -- sloopy malibu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
