On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote: > I hardly use 'rpm' to build components and applications because > I follow the latest versions of 'apache', 'php', 'mysql', 'cyrus-sasl', > 'ldap', 'postfix', and 'horde' and I cannot be bothered building rpms.
That's a very interesting comment, and one that's pretty common. IIRC, all the apps you've mentioned use GNU autoconf. Since RPM is designed around building from source (including macros that run configure and make with options to specify correct FHS locations, install files in a temporary dir for later capture for includion in a package, and compile with particular options) it shouldn't take you more than a minute to package any of these applications from source. I'm not a Linux expert by any means, but I find it trivially easy to package just about anything - I build a lot of applications from source, and like being able to install them in (what I percieve to be) the correct fashion - installableon other systems, uninstallable, with upgrading and querying and verification and all that other useful stuff. I suggest you (and most Linux users who know how to build from source unpackaged, but not create RPMs) take a look at RPM again. It really isn't that hard. Mike -- __________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCX, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
