Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755660AbZD2OsN (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:48:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752949AbZD2Or5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:47:57 -0400 Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([80.91.229.8]:57927 "EHLO hugh.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752082AbZD2Or4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:47:56 -0400 To: Alan Stern Cc: Greg KH , Kay Sievers , USB list , Kernel development list Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release References: <20090427210059.GA12446@kroah.com> From: Benny Amorsen Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:23:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Alan Stern's message of "Mon\, 27 Apr 2009 17\:21\:43 -0400 \(EDT\)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Score: -6.4 (------) X-Spam-Report: ALL_TRUSTED=-3.3, BAYES_00=-3.099 X-Spam-Report: ALL_TRUSTED=-3.3, BAYES_00=-3.099 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 27 Alan Stern 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). It isn't as easy as rpmbuild -ta, but it gets everything placed in the right location and it preserves the distro-specific patches. /Benny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/