GAIM 0.82

[Eddie Bindt]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Olaf Olson wrote:

Olaf,

the fact that yum does not find the update is that no-one build the new 
gaim (or any other app) and put it into the repository ...
Matthias Often builds new versions for freshrpms, but sometimes he is a 
few days/weeks behind ...

That is one of the reasons I have my own private repository :-)

All staff at YellowDog is busy with YDL4, so no updates from there ...

Eddie

> Thanks, Eddie.
> 
> The reason I was proposing such a thing as compiling from source was 
> that I didn't know it was possible to rebuild a newer RPM. I thought 
> that if YDL couldn't find it in a yum update, it couldn't be found. I 
> was also under the impression that if there was no update, your only 
> solution was to compile it from source and bring it in. I am happy to 
> hear that there is an alternative.
> 
> As the purpose for me to have YDL is to learn, I am going to delete my 
> recently installed GAIM 0.82, reinstall (yum install gaim) to the old 
> version, then follow your instructions to build a new rpm and install it.
> 
> I appreciate the new (for me) technique!
> 
> Olaf
> 
> Perhaps this should be added to the FAQ
> 
> Eddie Bindt wrote:
> 
> >And,
> >
> >to be not just the guy who says but not explains ...
> >
> >get the fedora src.rpm
> >
> >rpm -Uvh gaim<version>.src.rpm
> >vi /usr/src/yellowdog/SPEC/gaim.spec
> >
> >change all "sed -i" occurrences into "sed" because ydl3 sed does not 
> >understand "-i", that comes in after fc1 ...
> >
> >in the top of the spec file, set all extra options to "0" ... Most people 
> >do not need them and most of it will not work on ydl3 anyway. If you 
> >really need/want them, wait for ydl4 ...
> >
> >do
> >
> >rpmbuild -ba gaim.spec
> >
> >if all is well, your new rpm is build ...
> >
> >do 
> >rpm -Uvh /usr/src/yellowdog/RPMS/ppc/gaim<version>ppc.rpm
> >
> >and all is fine ...
> >
> >Eddie
> >
> >  
> >
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Eddie Bindt