[CentOS] Re: Installing Dag's RPMs

[dan.trainor]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
>>>I wanted to know your guys' success rate when installing and rebuilding
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>Rebuilding the prebuilt packages would seem to me to be reinventing
>>the wheel. Is there a reason that you need to rebuild them?
> 
> 
> Most likely to configure it differently (compiler optimizations,
> configure options, etc...)
> 
> 
>>--
>>Jim Perrin
>>System Administrator 
>>Ft. Gordon & US Army Signal Center
> 
> 

Jim, Ugo -

For that, too, Jim.

Honestly, I just like to be more informed as to how the install is done.
 I love RPM for it's transactional ability, i.e. knowing where files
are, how big, what kind, yada yada - but dislike it for it's sometimes
cryptic nature.  I've been doing a LOT of RPM exploration over the past
few weeks, and found the process of actually creating an RPM to be a
somewhat cumbersome and at times poorly documented system.  I don't want
to start rants over that one, but that's my firm belief.

However, things have been coming together lately.

Thanks!
-dant