On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > IMHO you should really use squid packaged as an RPM rather than
> > building it yourself. An RPM (or DEB) package will include scripts to
> > handle the start and shutdown of the service, and will configure squid
> > with minimal default settings. If you still want to recompile get the
> > SOURCE RPM and recompile it using rpm --rebuild
>
> what if a user wants to use a newer version of a package and there
> were no rpms available... for squid I am using squid2.3stable1
My answer to this is you will be doing all those commands to set it up anyway,
so document these commands and make a spec file for it, (or base your
spec file on the one of the older version). Not only do you contribute your
effort back to others who will have the same need for it, it will also save you
the time when you have to install the package in several other machines.
I do this all the time, and really, i cannot emphasize more the added value of
having package managers in a distribution.
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