GNU tar installation?

[Erik P. Olsen]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:31 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks, this is what I was unsure about.

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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen