I have been trying to update apache and php to accept mysql.
I have to install the sources and recompile with the
switches for mysql.

rpm doesn't seem to update the installed database once
source has been installed. As a result I'm getting a failure
on php because rpm can't determine that a srpm package has
been installed.

eg:
[root@dns SRPMS]# rpm --version
RPM version 3.0.3
[root@dns SRPMS]# rpm -ivh  apache-1.3.9-4.src.rpm
apache
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[root@dns SRPMS]# rpm -ivh  apache-1.3.9-4.src.rpm
apache
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[root@dns SRPMS]# rpm -ivh  apache-1.3.9-4.src.rpm
apache
##################################################
[root@dns SRPMS]# rpm -q  apache-1.3.9-4.src.rpm
package apache-1.3.9-4.src.rpm is not installed
[root@dns SRPMS]#