Don't go too far with any praise.
If I would have thought about it and if it was on the Novell
maintenance site, I would have pulled the binaries.
Perhaps I jumped the gun. When I saw that it was 'source only', I
didn't hesitate to "try my hand" at a source only install. I've done
little things that didn't seem to make much difference. But here was
something that had "unknown dependancies". That is, unlike installing
DB2/UDB and Oracle 10g, which their documentation states a set of
products/libraries/features that have to be at a certain minimum level,
I had to wait for the error message and see if I could understand it.
This is a high priority project, but I find that most of the time, I'm
held up waiting for someone else to do something. So, plenty of time to
do a source level install. And document what I've done.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/11/2007 8:24 PM >>>
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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