On 12/7/06, Jun Salen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Need some advice on installing postfix in CentOS4. Which is better, installing by yum or rpm -i or by compiling from source code? What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of each. Thanks.
Protip (Kuno :P): When going to install something from source, make sure you're installing it to some place that your distro's package management system doesn't cover (e.g., /usr/local or /opt .) If it also makes its own /var subtree, make sure that it spawns in /var/local . A `make -n install` run (which you can do without root privs) can help you trace an install and allow you to see which paths get made and installed (if you weren't so paying attention during your initial `./configure` run.) Installing from pristine source does give its doers a sense of `high` than one who simply installs from a managed program repository, but both approaches can actually compliment each other. One can even have the best of both worlds by using GNU stow[0] which allows you to manage locally-installed software as `stowed packages' that you can turn on and off, thanks to some linking magic. [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
