fedora life span

[Micheal]

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 10:08, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 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. 
> 

Scott,

May I suggest looking into the checkinstall project.  It essentially
takes the 'make install' step of compiling code and auto magically
builds the rpm.

It is located in the dag yum repository.

The project URL is at http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

HTH

Micheal