On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:18:12 -0800, Ranga Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you tried "YaST". I strongly suggest you use it, as it also resolves > dependencies. I used to follow the normal ./configure, make, make install > on Slackware but that approach causes problems in SuSE8 as it is closer to > Redhat, and uses packages. I'd say the issue is more to use RPM for package management, so that you can distribute binaries rather than recompile on each system. There's a lot of packages that you just need to support the build process (not just compilers, but also various -devel packages). While you may be only wasting your own time when you repeat this process over and over for each discrete server, with Linux on z/VM you also waste CPU time that could be used to run your business applications. The RPM packages ideally contain the information about dependencies. You're right in that adding packages by hand with RPM is a pain trying to find the missing packages to satisfy the dependencies. We find that tools like apt-rpm do a good job there. In the case of SuSE we find that the dependencies often are not complete and a lot of that information is in proprietary YaST control files. -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
