Being Newer Than Red Hat

[jj at lcs.mit.edu (John Jannotti)]

Maybe even more convenient, you can use "checkinstall" to build an rpm on
the fly from the existing "make install".  I haven't used it, but this
sounds very cool.

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

  jj

> You can build an rpm package from the source code you are going to
> compile...there are a lot of docs on how to do that.  This way you
> should be ok.  
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org] On Behalf Of
> Kent Borg
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:03 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Being Newer Than Red Hat
> 
> 
> Strategy question.  What is the best way to install a newer version of
> something I already have from Red Hat?  Specifically, I have cvs
> 1.11.1p1 from Red Hat but want to upgrade to 1.11.2.  Do I overwrite
> the old /usr/bin version and risk confusing Red Hat when I eventually
> attempt an upgrade to a newer version of Red Hat?  Do I install a new
> /usr/local/bin version and hope I don't get confused between the two?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -kb
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