On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 08:31 -0700, Todd Lyons wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 07:20:28PM -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> 
> >You need to uninstall all the packages and build from source. And before 

> 
> IMNSHO recommending that someone step outside of their distro's
> packaging scheme should only be done if
> a) the end user has exhibited massive knowledge of the source and how it
> installs things.
>      or
> b) you also recommend a move to a different distro, one that is not rpm
> based, one that is more source intensive.

I agree.  If someone is having trouble finding packages for their
distro, then I would recommend that they learn how to create an updated
package, rather than suggest that they rip it all out and build from
source all of the time.

In fact, that's the reason I learned how to update source-rpms - because
my distribution was not keeping up with the clamav updates.  They do
now, but I learned a valuable skill for other open-source projects I
work with.

changing a srpm for a new version and rebuilding the binaries is a whole
lot easier than messing with source installs on a minimal server.

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Austin Energy

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