> Not without problems. Often I will upgrade some package manually by
> compiling it from source (since no RPM happens to be available). And
> unless I create the RPM and then install from the RPM, the upgrade will
> overwrite the compiled binaries regardless of their version being newer or
> not. RPM creation is troublesome in my limited experience, and I don't
> feel like bothering when I can compile it just fine.
If you're failing to learn and implement a coherent packaging scheme on
your system, that's your problem. And if you're compiling packages from
source archives without giving a prefix different from /usr, that's also
your problem. If it came on the CD, /usr is fine. Otherwise, /usr/local
makes sense.
> any package, and the RedHat "upgade" agent doesn't check for this. So, do
Of course not. The packaging scheme is RPM.
> I need to run through the list of things it's going to do and untick those
> packages that I have upgraded manually from source? (I looked for the
> kernel listed there, but didn't see it.)
Look closer. :)
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- Isaiah
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