Re: tlug: RH mixing rpms and source

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Alberto Tomita wrote:

> At 17:02 00/5/28 +0900, you wrote:
> > How do people usually keep on the bleeding edge of software releases and
> > still keep the rpm system happy?
> 
> You could choose downloading the rpms from RedHat's rawhide directory.
> They keep the latest (thus unstable) versions there.

Probably the best/safest/most useful way of upgrading to new packages
while insuring that you're not BREAKING anything is to download the
.src.rpm from rawhide or wherever and then doing an 'rpm --rebuild
(filename)'.  This will generate new binary RPMs on your system that you
know compiled correctly with your current libraries and such.  Safer than
just installing someone else's binaries, IMHO.

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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