Best advise would be to back up all your conf files, remove the version you compiled,
install the rpms, then diff the new confs with your backuped up confs
JW
At 05:46 PM 10/13/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>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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