On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, guy keren wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Ely Levy wrote: > > > This rsync getting stuck in the middle is a known bug which got > > fixed a version and a half ago. > > *shrug* ofcourse, there's no rsync RPM in the 'updates' dir of redhat 6.2 > :) oh, well. we'll see how to fixthat. > > how do people generally deal with these RPMs issues, i.e. RPMs for older > distributions not being updated, and yet you want the bug fixes? and > please don't say "upgrade to the latest distribution".
I don't know about "people". If I need a newer version of some package, I download the source package and rebuild it. As long as it is not a package that too many other packages depend on (e.g: an important library, fileutils, etc.) it is usually quite safe, as you can know all of the side effects, and you can generally always revert to the original package if your newly-built package is screwed-up. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
