On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Tom Duerbusch wrote:
> So, I decided to download and install 2.0.1. This is a source install
> and you have to compile everything. ...
I tip my hat, sir!
Some recommend building as much as you can. Consider your
support contracts, of course. But the value in building it yourself
is that you have more control. The downside is that you have
more to learn. ONLY YOU can decide the balance between built
(from source) and binary (as distributed or downloaded).
GPG is strong security, deep magic. How paranoid are you?
I find it shocking (but I should not be shocked) that the
security teams at some companies would rather have a pre-compiled
installation than a source installation of something like GPG.
...
> ./configure
> make
> make check (or make test)
> make install
> and repeat.
That's the standard recipe. I usually specify
./configure --prefix=/where/I/want/it/installed
because the default may be /usr/local ... or not!
(This is not the LSB or FHS standard. It is not consistent.)
> Has anyone else in the zLinux world, done this?
> Am I looking at the wrong website and there is a download with
> binaries?
> Has anyone actually needed a reason to go from 1.2.4 (installed with
> the default install) to the 2.0.0 level?
I haven't followed GPG enough to know what changes you (or I)
might need between 1.x and 2.x. For most packages, get the latest.
Yes, you may need to get newer pre-reqs and build them.
-- R;
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