Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (616 mails)

[Henning Hucke <h_hucke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** Christopher Mahmood (ckm@xxxxxxxx) wrote in suse-security on Mar 4, 2002:

> [...]
> I don't see how the update could have overwritten your version of PEAR
> unless you installed it in /usr/bin and /usr/share instead of /usr/local/bin
> and /usr/local/share.  If you did that then you shouldn't be
> surprised that rpm overwrote it.

And isn't there also the option to build rpm archives from what you
install by your own and be warned if an other package is going to
overwrite a file of another - your - package?

In the meantime I build rpms from what I've installed from tar balls and
developed by myself since it's easy as nothing.

Best regards
    Henning Hucke
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