[ale] Cool!!

[Ray Knight]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 06:25, Jim Philips wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:34 pm, Ray Knight wrote:
> > > So far my main complaint against it is one that I have with other
> > > updaters: I have packages I compiled from source and Yum insists that
> > > these packages are out of date and need to be replaced with older
> > > versions. The packages were made with checkinstall and so far, all of
> > > these update programs don't know how to deal with that. Can't they just
> > > read the version?
> >
> > For the package manager to read the version you need to install the
> > software using the package package manager.  So get the source package,
> > modify it for the new version and source then build and install.
> >
> > You can't really expect a package manager to know what version you have
> > installed if you install a newer version from source bypassing the
> > package manager.
> 
> You don't understand what I wrote. I said I build the program from source and 
> install it using checkinstall. Checkinstall builds an rpm package and updates 
> the rpm database accordingly. So, yes, I think I can expect an update program 
> to deal with that properly. Instead, when it checks it wants to "upgrade" my 
> installed KDE 3.1.4 with KDE 2.2.1.
> 
You're correct, I misunderstood what you were saying.  My guess would be
that you either have a package naming problem (i.e. perhaps one version
of the package is named in upper case, the other in lower case), you
installed the package with checkinstall rather than updating (resulting
in two versions of the package installed), or you have some corruption
in your rpm database.

-- 
Ray Knight <audilover at atlantabroadband.com>