Re: Making a slight modification and replacing an rpm with the same version - is it possible ?

Ian Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks.
> What is the easiest way (and most correct) to
> bump the release number ? is it just rename the new rpm I created to
> something a bit higher, like  net-tools-1.60-88.fc9.x86_64.rpm
> (instead of net-tools-1.60-87.fc9.x86_64.rpm)?
> Or are there any more things I should do (change spec file, etc) in order to
> "bump the release number" ?
>   
You have to change the spec file - the bit after the line starting with 
"Release:" - then rebuild the rpm.
> Regards,
> IB
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:39:04PM +0300, Ian Brown wrote:
>>     
>>> I had downloaded net-tools src rpm and I made a very minor change in the source
>>> code.
>>> Now I created a new rpm after applying this change to the newly created rpm.
>>> (using adding the modification to the .bz2, using rpmbuild, etc).
>>> The new rpm I created is net-tools-1.60-87.fc9.x86_64.rpm.
>>> I have also the same version (net-tools-1.60-87.fc9.x86_64.rpm) installed on my
>>> machine.
>>> Is there a way I can replace the new rpm instead the old one?
>>>       
>> You can force this to work with -Uvh --oldpackage. But really, what you want
>> to do is bump the release number. This will both make an upgrade work
>> seamlessly _and_ at the same time document that it's not the unmodified RPM.
>>
>>
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