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[John Summerfield]

Gene Poole wrote:

> 
> Craig:
> I'm not raising up against RPM packaging.  What I am concerned about is the
> 'migration' to a 'C:' drive in Linux.  Let me explain:
>    Since you aren't telling me ahead of time where and how much space Java,
>    Tomcat, or Apache is going to need, I have no choice but to make a very
>    large '/' (root) partition which is the same as a 'C:' drive.  Except
>    with M$, I can tell it to install on the 'D:' or 'E:' drive if I have
>    one.
>    Normally, since I haven't seen much go into /usr/local or /opt in the
>    past (RH8-9, FC1-4), I usually make them around 512 MB in size.
>    But now without any warning or documentation I may need a /usr/local or
>    /opt of maybe 2-GB.

Who says whether you have to have a /usr/local partition or not? It's a 
point in the filesystem space. It's your choice whether it shares /usr 
space or not.

It could also be a network mount (I used to mount an NFS export from 
another host on /usr/local), or even (maybe for testing stuff) a 
partition on a USB disk.

> 
> 
> Les:
> I use the standard 'sudo yum update' today without problems.
> What I have learned is that , unless it was installed with a RPM package (I
> download the Apache, Tomcat, and Java binaries as tar.gz packages), it
> doesn't get updated.

Of course. How would Yum know where you got that stuff.

Seems you have some reading to do, to get up to speed. Check your local 
bookshop for a book-with-DVD. Doesn't matter a lot whether it's the 
latest (but perhaps no older than, say, Fedora Core 6), most of the 
information should be correct or close.



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