On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:15 pm, Stephen Schaefer wrote: > I can't be entirely sure that this idea won't have > pitfalls, but how about: get yourself all the source > RPMs, and replace Red Hat's versions with versions > built from Red Hat's source. You should be able to > apply your customized code as patches to the Red Hat > sources, then build and install your customized RPMs. > > This is by no means a walk in the park, but I've done > it in similar circumstances (I wanted a later mod_perl > than they supplied at the time). The bonus is that > rpm -Va is a pretty good tripwire lite. > > - Stephen P. Schaefer > > [who is taking the RHCE on the 27th, and would love to > work for Red Hat]
That sounds like a great idea, think I will try that on one of my test systems, after all I better start to learn how to exist in the RPM world! I have been fighting it mostly because I have not taken the time to learn it. I grew up in the forked Unix world, played with Linux years ago and then got coerced into the MS world by my corporate clients. I am just now emerging from that dark journey back into the Linux/Unix world and ran smack into this RPM monster! Not fair! *Sigh* guess I gotta start somewhere! Cheers and Thanks! Bob > > --- Robert Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately I cannot install Apache from the > > RPM's. I am using several > > custom mods that require Apache be built from the > > source. Such as mod_jk to > > connect to Tomcat and some custom authentication > > methods required by my > > applications, as well as the fact that I am trying > > to learn to code Apache > > modules themselves, all of which means I need a > > source version to work with. > > > > I had the full RPM Redhat version working "out of > > the box" during earlier > > installs, and I have one "native" Redhat system with > > all of the Apache mods > > working. But this system is/must be very different > > for the environment I am > > creating. Way back in RedHat 5.1 I had a similar > > environment setup but it > > has been awhile. > > > > I have paid for the up2date subscription and use it, > > but that caused other > > issues, especially with OpenSSL. Redhat > > "backpatched" versions of the SSL > > libraries to fix the recent buffer overruns, this > > means that the versions > > reported don't match anymore. I did do a binary > > install of MySql via RPM's > > from the ISO images with no problem. However I am > > finding that some packages > > installed via RPM and some installed via source tar > > balls seem to cause > > problems, the least of which is the RPM's tend to > > conform to RedHat's idea of > > file locations and the source tar balls adhere to > > more "standard" locations > > if there is such a thing :'> If you ask me RPM's > > are creating a Linux > > version of Microsoft DLL Hell. But that's most > > likely my ignorance of RPM > > technology speaking. > > > > My real issue is how to get rid of the RedHat RPM > > based version of OpenSSL and > > replace it with a configure/make/make install > > version without destroying my > > system. Any help would be most appreciated. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bob Porter > > [ further history elided ] > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! News - Today's headlines > http://news.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html -- Cheers, Robert Porter http://www.rp2c.com RP2C Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
