RE: Upgrading recompiled source rpm's - how?

["Burke, Thomas G." <thomas_g_burke md northgrum com>]

AFAIK, the version numbers are the same, just the newer ones were derived
from the source code rather than pre-compiled binaries...  Therein lies the
problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens vitalstream com]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:24 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Upgrading recompiled source rpm's - how?


Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> Hey gang,
> 
> 	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 I
> tell rpm to install/upgrade/freshen these files over the versions that are
> currently residing on my box?  (i'm going from the standard 386 binaries
to
> recompiled for PII binaries).
> 
> 	I've tried a couple of different things, but they don't seem to
> work.  Could someone please help?

I've never used the --rebuild or --recompile options before, but
the docs say they do the equivalent of a "make install".  This doesn't
mean that the RPM database has been updated, unless that's part of the
Makefile's install clause or the source RPM's %install clause.

If you do an "rpm -qa | grep foo", what version is reported?  The new
one?
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