linux-kernel - Re: usbutils 0.81 release

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:27:36 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.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, Alan Stern wrote:
> 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?

install a different distro.  any distro even remotely worth its salt
is going to package usbutils.  this is a devils advocate question, not
anything resembling reality.

otherwise, anyone who is going to build a rpm should be familiar with
the myriad of possibilities out there that handle exactly this case
(such as checkinstall).
-mike


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