[sane-devel] Re: Updating sane-backends

[T. Ribbrock]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:01:43PM -0500, Richard M. Teitel wrote:
> Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> 
> >"T. Ribbrock" <emgaron at gmx.net> wrote in the last therad you initiated
> >that he has made RPMs for Redhat. That would be more clean than to
> >install from .tar.gz
> >
> Perhaps I misread T. Ribbrocks message. I thought he said he had rpms 
> for sane-backends-1.0.9, but not yet for 1.0.11. My impression was that 
> 1.0.11 would solve the problems but 1.0.9 might not. So I opted for the 
> tar version.

You did indeed misread my message. I'm on RHL 7.3 and I have the
following installed:

esme:ribbrock 519> rpm -qa | grep sane
sane-backends-devel-1.0.11-1
sane-backends-1.0.11-1
xsane-gimp-0.90-1
xsane-0.90-1
sane-frontends-1.0.10-1

I have the SRPMs for those as well. I've uploaded them to
incoming.redhat.com this morning, but I'm not 100% sure whether those
servers are still fully supported (they've been awfully quiet for
ages). With a bit of luck, all those (S)RPMs will show up on
ftp.redhat.com/contrib/libc6/... 
If you need them in the meantime, just send me a mail and I'll arrange
for a once off download from my own server.


> >you could . . . overwrite the files of your distribution. That's done by 
> >running configure in sane-backends with the arguments --prefix=/usr 
> >--sysconfigdir=/etc. Check configure --help for the meaning.
> >
> That's extremely useful information that never occured to me. I will 
> check the configure --help files and figure out how to install the new 
> files on top of the old ones. I will also uninstall the old files by 
> forcing rpm to ignore the dependencies.

I'd recommed using the RPMs. Overwriting RPM files with a TAR install
is a very bad idea, as it can lead to tons of dependency problems in
the future - i.e. the whole thing tends to become a mess and rpm will
get confused.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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