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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:51:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> To: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk> cc: Alan Stern <public-stern-nwvwT67g6+6dFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz@...h.gmane.org>, Greg KH <public-greg-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@...h.gmane.org>, Kay Sievers <public-kay.sievers-tD+1rO4QERM@...h.gmane.org>, USB list <public-linux-usb-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@...h.gmane.org>, Kernel development list <public-linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@...h.gmane.org> Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Benny Amorsen wrote: > Alan Stern <stern-nwvwT67g6+6dFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz@...lic.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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