Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:51:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: usbutils 0.81 release |
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Alan Stern <stern-nwvwT67g6+6dFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz@public.gmane.org> > writes: > > > Sure they do. If you've got an RPM-based system, and you want to > > install a package version that's more recent than the one bundled in > > your distribution (or if your distribution doesn't include the package > > at all), then you'd want to build your own RPM. > > In that case you grab the source package from the distribution, install > it, bump the version number and add the tar file to the SOURCES > directory. (And then you remove the patches which were upstreamed in the > meantime).
You didn't read all that I wrote. What if the package isn't included in the distribution at all?
Alan Stern
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