Being Newer Than Red Hat

[Chris Tresco]

I've never thought of package management as a bottleneck.  Quite the
contrary.  Imagine you have to install 5 identical servers...  Would you
want to compile those packages 5 times?  I think not.  Plus it is good
to have something checking your dependancies...leads to less headaches
in the long run.  I think that one of the WORST things you can do is to
mix package-based installs with make install installs.  If you
absolutely have to do it, at least keep /usr/local clean except for
things you compile yourself.


Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org] On Behalf Of
Kent Borg
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:26 PM
To: Chris Tresco
Cc: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Being Newer Than Red Hat


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:12:22PM -0400, Chris Tresco wrote:
> You can build an rpm package from the source code you are going to
> compile...there are a lot of docs on how to do that.  This way you
> should be ok.  

Actually, I was just thinking up that same alley and thinking I could
try the cvs-1.11.2-cvshome.7x.i686.rpm that is on cvshome.org, and
specifically for Red Hat 7.x users.


But this whole thing has me thinking.  Maybe it is finally time for me
to learn how to build my own RPMs.  Might it be useful try to run much
of my sysadmining through an RPM bottleneck?  Not that my box is a
difficult project...but I use it for a learning platform, pretending I
can't afford downtime, etc., and generally intentionally make it more
complicated than it need be.


-kb
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