RE: Replacing Vendor rpms.

["Steven Hajducko" <steven hajducko digitalinsight com>]

I'm not ignoring anyone, that'd be stupid.  I'm not that much of a
blockhead where I'd ask for help and then ignore it.  The general
consensus though, seems to be "Don't bother trying to do it", which
while I can accept as an operational answer and move on with the
project, isn't going to stop me from doing it anyways on a test box and
most likely borking the whole process and the os installation as well.
It's just that I'd rather know reasons why it's bad ( which Bob gave )
rather than just being told so that it was bad and not to do it.

So, while I appreciate your comments about OpenLDAP and sources I could
go for building the latest version, it sort of missed the point (
probably due to my vague descriptions and not knowing the right
questions to actually ask ).

In fact, the true answer seems to be that I should have read more on the
dependancy chapter in the RPM docs, since it pretty much states my
mistake in bold letters.

"Note that this is not a filename. In fact, no aspect of RPM's
dependency processing is based on filenames. Many people new to RPM
often make the assumption that a failed dependency represents a missing
file. This is not the case."

And if I truly wanted to attempt this, I would have to fool around with
the Makefile and compile the libs with the appropriate sonames to
resolve the dependency issue ( which is what Frank originally stated,
but I was oblivious to sonames and most of Linux's lib linking
mechanisms, something I'm reading up on now! ).

Again, Tonni, I truly do appreciate any help and didn't mean to give any
suggestion that I was ignoring your comments ( I already have Buchan's
page bookmarked and the source downloaded. :) )

--
sh

-----Original Message-----
From: rpm-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:rpm-list-bounces redhat com]
On Behalf Of Tony Earnshaw
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:02 AM
To: rpm-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Replacing Vendor rpms.

fr den 15.09.2006 Klokka 09:40 (-0600) skreiv Bob Proulx:

> Steven Hajducko wrote:
> > The original question still stands ( with more information from 
> > Frank )
> > - How do I overwrite the so's for a library that other RPM's are 
> > dependant upon?

[...]

> Personally I would avoid trying to provide critical libraries such as 
> openssl and similar.  They high visibility interfaces which often need

> security upgrades.  By using a vendor supplied library you benefit 
> from sharing the work among a team of people.  If you do it yourself 
> then you have keep track of issues yourself and jump to it when 
> problems are disclosed or your server may become vulnerable to a 
> crack.

Bob (the cyclist and pilot, google for him), who's helped me before on
this list, has just now gently ushered you towards the solution I
suggested. If you choose to ignore me, don't ignore Bob. The critical
RHAS4 verdict is, "it works for us".

Thanks again, Bob :)

--Tonni

--
Tony Earnshaw
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/FlatCurEv.htm

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