On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:54, Justin wrote: > I almost never use any outward facing daemons that aren't compiled from > source. I compile just about everything from source if given the > opportunity. RH is terrible about keeping up with the latest greatest > unless it involves a critical security fix.
I think you've missed the point of RH's versioning. RPM updates for released versions intentionally consist only of back-ported bug and security fixes so as to minimize the chances of breaking anything else you have installed and running. That has to have been a huge effort and I can see why they changed their release model. In any case, if you want new features you should always upgrade to the latest version, which these days is fedora, or pull the untested versions from rawhide. > RH is also terrible about > using the compile-time options that I want. When was the last time you > used an RPM to install Apache or MIMEDefang? :) RH 7.3 had Apache right, and I think the current (with updates) Fedora version is again. > Why does RPM have to be so darned obtuse? It is a low-level tool. You should look at one of the repositories that allows apt-get or yum like www.freshrpms.net if you stick to RH9. Yum is included with fedora, or you can use up2date. All of these wrappers compute the dependencies and install everything you need for an update at once. If you compile parts yourself without going through rpm you break the ability to follow the dependencies/obsoletes noted. But, it would be great if someone packaged MimeDefang and Clamav for an rpm install... --- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
