On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:51:12AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Benny Amorsen wrote: > > > Alan Stern <stern-nwvwT67g6+6dFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > writes: > > > > > Sure they do. If you've got an RPM-based system, and you want to > > > install a package version that's more recent than the one bundled in > > > your distribution (or if your distribution doesn't include the package > > > at all), then you'd want to build your own RPM. > > > > In that case you grab the source package from the distribution, install > > it, bump the version number and add the tar file to the SOURCES > > directory. (And then you remove the patches which were upstreamed in the > > meantime). > > You didn't read all that I wrote. What if the package isn't included > in the distribution at all? What rpm based distro does not have usbutils? Just curious, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
