Making a slight modification and replacing an rpm with the same version - is it possible ?
 

Ian Brown wrote:

Hi,

Thanks.
What is the easiest way (and most correct) to
bump the release number ? is it just rename the new rpm I created to
something a bit higher, like net-tools-1.60-88.fc9.x86_64.rpm
(instead of net-tools-1.60-87.fc9.x86_64.rpm)?
Or are there any more things I should do (change spec file, etc) in order to
"bump the release number" ?

You have to change the spec file - the bit after the line starting with
"Release:" - then rebuild the rpm.

Regards,
IB

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:39:04PM +0300, Ian Brown wrote:


I had downloaded net-tools src rpm and I made a very minor change in the source
code.
Now I created a new rpm after applying this change to the newly created rpm.
(using adding the modification to the .bz2, using rpmbuild, etc).
The new rpm I created is net-tools-1.60-87.fc9.x86_64.rpm.
I have also the same version (net-tools-1.60-87.fc9.x86_64.rpm) installed on my
machine.
Is there a way I can replace the new rpm instead the old one?


You can force this to work with -Uvh --oldpackage. But really, what you want
to do is bump the release number. This will both make an upgrade work
seamlessly _and_ at the same time document that it's not the unmodified RPM.


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Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>
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