rpm question

["FamiLink Admin" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Curently, I am running squid 2.4 stable 6 installed on linux7.3 using an rpm 
but I need to add a Patch for squid to make it use X-Forwarded-For for ACLs.

Can this patch work for  an RPM?  If so, can someone spell it out for me? 
If not, can I just in stall squid 2.4 stable 6 from tar and then patch it?

Thanks for all your help.


Ryan Lamberton