Source Installs and RPM Issue

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

IMHO your best bet is to just build a new RPM with the
updated sources and then "rpm -Fvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/<new-rpm>"
to update it.

-derek

Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at attbi.com> writes:

> Sometimes, I need to upgrade a core component like OpenSSL by
> compiling the source rather than installing a new RPM.  However, there
> are several packages like sendmail that depend on OpenSSL.  As a
> result, I can't just 'rpm -e' the old RPM version and install the new
> version from the source.  What is the best way to manage this?
> Perhaps, the solution is to build an RPM from the source and than
> install that instead?  I would hate to have to uninstall all the RPM
> dependencies and then rebuild them all so there has to be a better
> solution.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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