GNU tar installation?

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Tue Jan 25 15:31:35 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 08:37, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> Sorry, I shouldn't have asked the question. I was just looking for a
> friendly advice.

First you might peek at the stock srpm to see if it already includes
the fix you need.  RedHat/fedora sometimes back bugfixes into earlier
versions without bumping the version numbers.  Then if you still need
the newer version, just build the tarball in /usr/local/bin (the usual
default) and it won't interfere with rpm dependencies.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com





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