Package Rebuilding

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, James Kosin wrote:

> Ok,
>
> I have a question:
>  When you build a new package (say for postgresql) and you are leaping
> version number, say from 7.x to 8.x, How do you go about updating the
> other dependencies (other packages that require a library in 7.x) that
> doesn't exist in the new package?  Without completely scrubbing the
> other packages and rebuilding them afterwards that is.
>
>  Maybe another way:  Can you specify the postgresql path while building
> new rpms for the dependent packages, so they see the new package
> libraries instead of the old?  Without either forcing the install of the
> new package, or uninstalling all the dependent packages then rebuilding.

Maybe I'm missing something but if you have the package built, shouldn't 
yum install <package name> pull in and install all the dependencies 
provided you pointed yum to the package on your hard drive? What do I have 
wrong?

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Bob Holtzman
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