On Wednesday 22 September 2004 17:10, seth vidal wrote: > > I get an error trying to install it if the binary is already installed, > > since yum/rpm sees the installed version and refuses to install the srpm, > > thinking it already installed. ... > > rpm doesn't track installed source rpms anywhere - so I'm not sure where > you get this error from. > > Remember users can install source rpms, too. It can only be that rpm is comparing the version of the srpm as if it was the binary it produces - this is *only* a preliminary hack. > > At the moment I'm simply treating xxx.src like it's a new architechture > > (simlar to xxx.i386, xxx.i585, ...), and it's still very much a quick and > > dirty solution just to get started. > > don't do that. That's ugly and confusing to new users. I didn't intend to. ;-) > Do this. Create an entirely separate executable. It should import from > the yum module in 2.1.X but it shouldn't be an option to yum at all. > > yum-source is one potential name. > > but I have no intention of cluttering up the yum command with options > for src.rpms. > > I'm fine with including it along with yum but just like rpmbuild and rpm > are separate commands - so should there be a separation for this. On Wednesday 22 September 2004 18:02, Michael Stenner wrote: > This will have the added benefit of easing development. You two will > probably end up working in entirely different files most of the time. > If you find that many changes are necessary in the libs, then perhaps > the libs needed to be more general anyway :) Makes sense. Ok, now to aquaint myself with 2.1.X, and get on with learning Python. I'll post again when I have something worthwhile, or if I run into problems I think you'll be able to help with. Thanks for your thoughts so far. Fred.
