Hi, I'm relatively new to using Linux on a daily basis and I was looking for some information about what the "trends" are for production Linux machines. I installed RedHat 9, and have mucked about with rpm and thought that packages were the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, in the course of my reading and playing I've noticed that many places recommend that the binary executables actually be compiled by your machine (with all its kernel options, etc.) which is sensible. Everything is well when I ./configure them and then "make install" but if there is an update to a particular product it seems very inconvenient to upgrade versions. An example is the Apache httpd server - 1.3.xx stores its served files in /var/www/html/ and the actual httpd daemon in /usr/bin. Apache 2, however, sets the DocumentRoot as /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ and the binaries in /usr/local/apache2/bin/. I know it's just a simple matter of changing the DocumentRoot entry in the httpd.conf file for served documents but is there a better/easier way to go about upgrading the binaries? Or is the de facto standard to simply run ./configure --with-prefix=/usr/bin? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks,
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