RE: Replacing Vendor rpms.

[Tony Earnshaw <tericssonearnshaw barlaeus nl>]

fr den 15.09.2006 Klokka 07:11 (+0200) skreiv Tony Earnshaw:
> to den 14.09.2006 Klokka 18:48 (-0700) skreiv Steven Hajducko:
> 
> > I should probably rewind a bit more.
> > 
> > I was in the process of creating a some new LDAP servers to replace our
> > rather ancient ones.  As an experiement ( and a learning experience ), I
> > figured I'd grab the latest OpenLDAP source and try to build/package it
> > for deployment through our WebJob ( http://webjob.sourceforge.net )
> > servers.  But, I needed a bunch of other prereq's ( openssl, berkleydb,
> > etc ).  The only reason I picked OpenSSL for my example is that it was
> > the first one I've tried to build. ( For sake of discussion, the OpenSSL
> > package we currently have is from RH 4.0 EL Update 3 )
> 
> Erm ... if you simply want to keep to update 3 and add the latest
> OpenLDAP (2.3.27) you can save yourself a lot of work by building Buchan
> Milne's srpm:
> http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/buchan/openldap/SRPMS/
> put http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/pub/Main/BackPorting/macros.mdk4rh
> into /etc/rpm first. Get the 2.3.27 tgz file from www.openldap.org and
> edit the srpm spec file to include this as Source (not the bz2 that
> Mandrake's so fond of) and it will build fine and install next to Red
> Hat's legacy 2.2.13. You'll have to put up with Buchan's soname and
> file/man 2.3 extension tacked onto everything, though; symlinks
> in /usr/bin for the 2.3 ->  plain clients work fine.

Hmmm ... I see that there's a Buchan Red Hat 2.3.27 srpm at (ftp)
anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/buchan/SRPMS, so the above hacks are probably
not necessary any more.

--Tonni

-- 
Tony Earnshaw
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