patches (was Re: linux security)

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 21:55, Ethan Merritt uttered:
> You mean like 'rpm -i' (for install) rather than 'rpm -U' for (upgrade)?

This won't work.  The reason is that the rpm has files that belong in a 
certian place.  When a new version of the package comes out, the file names 
are the same.  So, until you figure out a way to have newer and older files 
occupy the same name/space, this can't happen.  Of course, some rpms are 
relocatable.  Rpm supports the --prefix=/foo tag when installing rpms, if the 
rpm was made relocatable.  You can then choose to install the rpm w/ 
/usr/local/test as a prefix, instead of vendorspace.

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