[Openswan Users] Upgrading Fedora RPM installations with .tag.gz source files

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Greg Scott wrote:

> I have several systems out there running various Openswan versions.  They’re all built up using Fedora RPMs.  I solved a problem the other day by installing
> .tar.gz release of the latest Openswan version on top of an older version on an older Fedora system and was pleasantly surprised that everything seemed to
> work – the new versions of the Openswan images must have replaced the older ones in the same path.  Or maybe Openswan has some really slick logic that
> figures out where the latest versions are.  I was expecting a long troubleshooting scenario where I would need to update paths all over the place, but
> instead it all just worked.   So I guess I wanted to say thanks.  I’m wondering if I should upgrade some of my other older versions out there?

You should still rpm -e openswan if you installed from source.

Paul