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Reputation: 1864

Best Way to Install and Maintain the Dependency?

I am a bit new to this kind of administration stuffs -- I would like to build GCC 4.8.2 (just an example) myself, and I would like some how makes yum realize that there is a package newer than what the external repos have (GCC 4.4 is the latest in the standard/defualt repos).

It seems like I have to:
1. Create an rpm package myself
2. Create a local yum repo myself
3. Add the rpm package to my local yum repo and somehow specify that it is a newer version of GCC than the one external repos offer

Am I right?

Is there a good tutorial? I searched online and there are many tutorials for creating RPMs, and tutorials for creating private yum repo. But I couldn't find an example/tutorial to show me the complete flow...

Any input is welcome.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 134

Answers (1)

Jonathan Wakely
Jonathan Wakely

Reputation: 171303

You don't need to create a yum repo. Yum uses the RPM database to see which packages are installed, so if you create a gcc-4.8.2 RPM and install it then Yum will know that gcc-4.8.2 is installed.

Yum understands package version numbers so it will know that gcc-4.8.x newer than gcc-4.4.x

Upvotes: 0

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