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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
