Hello all, I am a relative newbie to Linux so please excuse me if any of my
statements sound ignorant!
I have a RedHat Linux 6.2 box providing the following services:
1) Apache
2) Cyrus - IMAP
3) Sendmail 8.10 with SMTP auth.
4) TWIG for web based access to the IMAP server.
In order to get the above working, I downloaded the sources of the various
applications (apache, cyrus, sendmail ... etc.) and then compiled and
installed them by hand (no RPMS in other words).
I would like to re-do the system and have it use all the packages via RPM,
so that upgrading and maintaining them is easier. However, in order to get
all the packages to compile and work correctly, I had to make many tweaks to
the configuration/make files before compiling and installing them. If I use
an RPM for the package, is there any way to modify the package before
installing it? For example, I had to configure and compile Apache by hand
to get perl, php, and a host of other features in it. If I was to download
the RPM for Apache, chances are it would not have all the features I need
compiled into it. Is there a way to get those features to compile into it
via RPMS? Can this be done by using source RPMS? If so, where can I find
the information on how to do this?
Thanks in advance for any help,
--Moby
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