fedora life span
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Sun Jul 11 15:08:58 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 10:40, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:34:19PM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > For major packages used in production I have started building them from
> > source. (apache, php, postgresql, etc) As such I can apply patches
> > directly from the developers when needed. True, I don't use RPM for
> > those packages but then I have a little more control over what options
> > are included.
>
> Scot -- I suggest going a step further. There's a bit of a learning curve
> for RPM, but it's not too bad, especially when starting from already
> existing packages. Instead of building and installing the source directly,
> build your own RPMs. Then you have the advantages of both.
>
Matthew,
That is on my list of things to get to eventually. :) Other things
always seem to take precedence. One major benefit would be not having
to have a build environment installed on every machine. (particularly
Internet facing systems, I prefer not having a wide variety of tools on
those boxes)
So don't be surprised if I ask questions about writing spec files
sometime in the future. :)
--
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Out of the mouths of babes does often come cereal.
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