[H-GEN] What have I installed?

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:42 pm, Robert Kearey wrote:
> Congratulations, you've discovered why Red Hat, Debian, and others have
> spent a lot of time and effort developer application package management
> software :)

Exactly!  I have come to regard the rpm utility with a good deal of respect 
over the last year or so.

> I'd suggest grabbing a dhcp-3 src.rpm from 8.0, and rpm --rebuild-ing that.

I tried the binary rpm from 8.0 but had a dependency problem (libc.so.x ??).  
When I started looking into resolving the dependencies, it started getting 
too hard for my little brain to cope with.   Since I've successfully 
installed other software using source tarballs in the past, I thought that 
would be the answer.

I've never done anything with a source rpm before so I didn't even think of 
trying that.  :-(   Time to "man rpm" again.  :-)

Taking that suggestion on board raises other questions.
a)  Is it likely that the dependency issues encountered using the binary rpm 
will also be encountered using the source rpm?

This one is probably not a fair question to ask in this forum, but ...
b)  When "rpm --rebuild" has finished compiling and installing the 
application, is it likely, in this case, that all the files installed by 
"make install" will be over written and hence be of no concern?  

(I think I'm going to have to find a non-production box to experiment with 
some of this stuff - if I can ever find the time.)



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