Nigel Frankcom wrote: > I installed 3.1.1 today on a fresh CentOS install and foolishly > neglected to check it hadn't already installed an older version of SA. > Now when I run yum update it lists 3.0.5 as an update. I've installed > 3.1.1 from source and am wondering if using yum remove for the 3.0.5 > install will fubar anything else?
It may possibly overwrite some files from 3.1.1 depending on where you installed them, although I'm not sure whether RPM will do a hash sanity check on the files before removing them. I'm not sure it does for non-config files. So you might find the yum remove kills your install and you have to reinstall 3.1.1. Much better is to actually install 3.1.1 as an RPM package (build your own based on the CentOS source RPM if nobody else has done one). Half-package managing a system (i.e. installing some things from source, whilst upgrading others with automated tools) rarely ends up as anything but confusing. e.g. if you want to install something from the OS base which *is* packaged but depends on SA, it won't work (failed deps) if you've installed SA from source, etc. If you haven't done it before, building your own RPMs is usually fairly easy especially if you have recent examples (e.g. the 3.0.5 CentOS one) to work from. Tim
