[LUG] Updating RPMs

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I confess to having ignored source RPM's for too long.

I want to drag my Redhat install into the 21st century with
recent builds of GNU software, nothing exciting just I'm out
of date on tools like "gettext" and "glibc" for what I want
to do.

Kicking gnorpm, suggests ugrading to the latest version of
Redhat is not the answer, as I'll still be out of date *8-(

However all the tar balls have wacky defaults for where to
install executabls and libraries, and I'm painfully aware
I'm breaking the configuration management scheme on the box
so I'll never be able to rebuild the same configuration (or
even something approaching it).

I'm thinking I should be updating the source RPMs with the
new packages (and possibly releasing the changes as SPRM
and/or binary RPMs), or should I just drop the maintainers a
polite note. Or is it time to go Debian?!

Where shall I go tomorrow...
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