FreeRADIUS + Postgresql dies unexpectedly

[John Dennis]

On 11/12/2009 12:28 PM, Duarte Fonseca wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> The only change I did to the spec file was change the release (and
> later add the --enable-developer)
>
> What I did do was go to the SOURCES dir and unpack the
> freeradius-server archive, change the file in question, pack up
> freeradius-server replacing the original tar.bz2 archive.
>
> I did this assuming rpm build would build using whatever code is in
> that tar.bz2 file. Is this another case of assumption being the mother
> of all f*ckups?

You can do it this way, but it's like trying to use a hammer to drive a 
screw :-) The whole rationale of RPM packaging is based around applying 
patches to upstream sources, which in this instance is exactly what 
you're doing.
-- 
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