linux-kernel - Re: usbutils 0.81 release

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:42:32 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk>,
	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, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:51:12AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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?

What rpm based distro does not have usbutils?

Just curious,

greg k-h

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