[ydl-gen] Built an rpm of gnu M4 1.4.11. not for certain how to test/install it.

[sloopy malibu]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:38:47 -0500
"Ron Rogers Jr." <CronoCloud at mchsi.com> wrote:

> I was going to update gnupg from 1.4.5 to 1.4.9 the usual way
> with a source install, when I thought that maybe I could help
> the community by doing an rpm of it.  So I found a src rpm and
> tried to build it but it needed gettext-devel (which is in our
> repos) and autoconf 2.60+.  got me an autoconf src rpm and tried
> building that but it needed a newer M4 so I grabbed that.
> 
> That built, but I'm not for certain how to properly install or
> test it.  I can always do an rpm -ivh --force of course, but
> that isn't the proper way, I think. I tried yum localupdate
> m4foo, but it refuses to install stating conflicts with the
> installed M4. I'm probably missing something simple.  I'm just
> used to installing everything from source and not using packages.
> 
> 
> Ron Rogers Jr.
> 

use rpm -Uvh 

(U is upgrade it will upgrade the package as opposed to i which is just install)

re:
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-upgrade.html

p.s. max-rpm is a good 'book' on rpm defintely worth a read in (ha!) free time...
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sloopy malibu <sloopy at ydl.net>