On Fri, 18.07.08 10:59, Del Merritt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Avahi-novice question: the version of avahi that is formally supported > by my distribution (RHEL5) is at version 0.6.16. What is considered > best practice if I want to be using the latest version of Avahi on a > given system? Should I: > > * "yum remove avahi" and then build from the source tarball > * wait for the provider to get to updating avahi > * disable the system's version and then build/install the source > tarball in parallel (/opt/blah or /usr/local/blah) > > Or is there another option I've missed? I'd kind of like the third > option, since ideally I could develop with the latest stuff and then try > it with the "formally distributed" stuff to see if anything breaks.
I'd probably steal the spec file from rawhide and build it locally as rpm and install it then. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
