On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:25 -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Daryl Hoffman wrote: > > > I would be interested in knowing the benefits of this over > > installing from > > the tar files or sharing the binaries across multiple images? Does > > this > > "speed up" or make the installation easier? Does this make it > > installable > > on the root partition and why would one want to do that? > > If you have your packages managed by a package management system, then > you have a tool which tells you what version it is, can know that it > needs to apply security updates if necessary, and it means that you > only have to look in one place to tell what version of everything > you're running. > > Adam >
It also has the advantage of warning you before one RPM-based package tries to overwrite files that are part of another package. That applies to config files as well. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Brad Hinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Support Engineer Lead, System z Red Hat, Inc. (919) 754-4198 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
