Re: where? security updates for FC4

[Kelson <kelson speed net>]

Florin Andrei wrote:
> Of course, one can always download the upstream tarballs and generate 
> packages, but somehow I suspect this to be the most difficult method.

What I've done in cases like this is to take the latest SRPM for the 
target distribution and the current upstream tarball.  Then I install 
the SRPM instead of rebuilding it, change the version number in the 
.spec file, and try to build it.

This is most likely to work with minor version changes -- 1.2.3 to 
1.2.5, for instance.

1. Grab package.lastversion.fc4.src.rpm
2. Grab package.newversion.tar.gz
3. rpm -i package.lastversion.fc4.src.rpm
4. cp package.newversion.tar.gz /path/to/rpm/SOURCES
5. Edit /path/to/rpm/SPECS/package.spec
6. rpmbuild -ba /path/to/rpm/SPECS/package.spec
7. Tweak stuff (like patches that won't apply), go back to step 5 until 
you get an RPM or give up.

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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>