Mike Cooper writes:
Hi Sam,
Yes, that's me. Please stop top-posting. It's very rude.
I'm not sure I understand your suggestion on building/install RPMs. What does that process do that "make install/install-configure" doesn't?
Quite a bit. It makes sure that all necessary libraries are present.It prevents you from accidentally overwriting files installed by some other package on your system. And it will also prevent some other package, that's installed later, from overwriting and blowing away any file installed by this package.
It automatically records all dependencies needed by the package, thus preventing you from accidentally removing a required library or a module, and breaking everything. A subsequent upgrade to a new release of WS will automatically install any legacy compatibility packages that may be required, and are avialble.
It automatically installs all necessary startup and shutdown scripts.
I would have loved to use "off the shelf" RPMs, but I couldn't locate any for RHEL4 x86_64.
Is it really that difficult to execute:
rpmbuild -ta courier-authlib-<version>.tar.bz2
rpm -i courier-authlib<version>.<arch>.rpm \
courier-authlib-devel-<version>.<arch>.rpm \
courier-authlib-<subpackage>…
rpmbuild -ta courier-<version>.tar.bz2
rpm -i courier-<version>.<arch>.rpm \
courier-<subpackage>…
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