On 05 Oct 2002 20:49:40 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 17:42, Per Jessen wrote: >> >installing packages designed for your system: if you need the latest >> >Samba for your Red Hat Linux, then a package built for it from Samba.org >> >is better than no package, whereas a package from SuSE might be a >> >doubtful proposition. >> >> Correct. But I simply wouldn't bother - download the source tarball, >> not the RPM. > >You might want to rebuild the rpm but not doing package management is >the easy path to doom. Its always easy to skip proper adminstration and >management of any system, its almost always a bad idea to have done so, >be it Linux, windows install-shield, whatever
Good point, although I have actually never done this - ie. rebuilt the RPM. I guess I tend to check where an already installed package resides etc., then "aim" the source build at (approximately :-) the same place. /Per regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
