On Aug 27, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Richard Troth wrote:
Please don't lose heart about building it yourself. If you can find an RPM, and you trust it, great! But if you can't find pre-built packages or you don't trust the "builder", or if you need customization or require some up-to-date release, building your own is the way to go. If you are committed to in-house compilation, then you can justify having and maintaining a suite of requisite packages and libraries so that next time something like SVN comes along it will "just make" and life will be beautiful.
You still should find or build a spec file, and run rpmbuild to do the actual make. Going outside the package management system hurts. Trust me on this. I realize that this is very different advice than the Adam who worked in Rick's office a zillion years ago would have given, but from a maintenance standpoint: 1) Use the distro version if there is one--even if it's on the SDK 2) If you can't do that, at least roll it up into the distro package management system so you can use your distro tools to query installed package version level and so forth Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
