How do I upgrade a package I've just rebuilt from source?

asked 2019-02-18 08:13:18 -0600

vmercuri
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Hi. I've just rebuilt the .rpm of Vim from source on F29. I followed the usual scheme:

rpmdev-setuptree
sudo dnf builddep vim
dnf download --source vim
rpm -ivh vim-8.1.897-1.fc29.src.rpm
rpmbuild -bb ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/vim.spec
sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/vim-8.1.897-1.fc29.rpm --force

However, when I run dnf upgrade it asks me to replace my newly compiled package with the one from the repo (which is the same version of course). How can I keep my package installed without dnf trying to replace it?

answered 2019-02-18 08:28:04 -0600

aeperezt

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You could add --exclude=vim to your dnf update command line, or you can add the exclude=vim sentence on your fedora-updates.conf repo file on /etc/yum.repos.d

Hope this help.

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Thanks! I'll use your solution. However, why dnf wants to upgrade it if it's the same version? I could replace it myself with dnf reinstall if I wanted. If I just exclude vim from being upgraded at all I'd lose potentially useful upgrades when, say, vim-8.2 will come out. But for now I only want the package I've built myself to have priority over the official one, which is the same version. Maybe dnf uses other criteria to prioritize upgrades?

vmercuri ( 2019-02-18 08:46:55 -0600 )edit

It will probable be because on DNF database vim is not upgrated.

aeperezt ( 2019-02-19 10:10:36 -0600 )edit

Indeed. I need to find a way to tell DNF to do exactly that.

vmercuri ( 2019-02-21 10:59:28 -0600 )edit

Not sure this will work for you, but you can allow update vim, then reinstall vim using rpm instead of dnf that way you are working outside dnf databases, and over the updated package.

aeperezt ( 2019-02-21 13:23:40 -0600 )edit

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