But this has always worked before... I assumed that in this case maybe yum was looking at the build date or something of that nature to determine which package to install.
-----Original Message----- From: Greg Bailey [mailto:gbai...@lxpro.com] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 3:18 PM To: Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] Cc: rhelv6-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] rebuilt package not showing selected for update On 12/9/2010 4:08 PM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote: > > I have been rebuilding the "ksh" RPM starting in RHEL5.0 (thru > RHEL5.5) to change the behavior of he builtin "echo" command. This has > never been an issue, I just plunk the rebuilt RPM file down in our > local YUM repo, run createrepo and a 'yum update' will detect the > package and install it, replacing the existing ksh package. > > For some reason I can't figure out, this is not working in RHEL6... I > was able to rebuild it fine, but after putting everything in place, > 'yum check-update' does not see it. > > The command I used to rebuild is: > > rpmbuild --define 'dist .el6' -bb ksh.spec > > I've tried re-running the createrepo, running 'yum clean all', etc... > no luck. > > Info from the package: > > # rpm -qip > /redhat/RedHatServer6/RHEL6.0/x86_64/rebuild/ksh-20100621-2.el6.x86_64.r pm > > > Name : ksh Relocations: (not relocatable) > > Version : 20100621 Vendor: (none) > > Release : 2.el6 Build Date: Thu Dec 9 12:15:31 2010 > > Info from the installed package > > # rpm -qi ksh > > Name : ksh Relocations: (not relocatable) > > Version : 20100621 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. > > Release : 2.el6 Build Date: Tue Jun 29 07:40:26 2010 > > Any ideas would be helpful.... > Unless I'm missing something, the version you built and the Red Hat provided one are the same version/release combination, right? If that's the case, the one you just built wouldn't appear any "newer" than the one built by Red Hat, and there would be no upgrade required. -Greg _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list rhelv6-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
