Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759658AbZD2RQr (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:16:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757923AbZD2RQg (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:16:36 -0400 Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([80.91.229.8]:58199 "EHLO hugh.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751050AbZD2RQg (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:16:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:51:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@netrider.rowland.org To: Benny Amorsen cc: Alan Stern , Greg KH , Kay Sievers , USB list , Kernel development list Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-TMDA-Confirmed: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:27:57 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 991 Lines: 30 On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Benny Amorsen wrote: > 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). You didn't read all that I wrote. What if the package isn't included in the distribution at all? Alan Stern -- 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/