[CentOS] Compile vs. RPM
Chris Mauritz
chrism at imntv.com
Mon Jan 9 18:00:21 UTC 2006
Mickael Maddison wrote:
>The one thing I've always liked about installing from tarball
>distributions is that I prefix everything into /usr/local -- so it's
>easy to find all the pieces. This is perhaps the one thing that I
>find most annoying about RPM; spreading things all over the place. Of
>course, being able to custom compile modules etc. has worked well.
>
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You can still do this if you download the source rpm and edit the prefix
in the .spec file. I used to do this for a number of packages, but I've
gotten lazy over the years and have gotten used to leaving most stuff
where it defaults to.
>QUESTION: Do most of you cron the yum updates, or do you watch for
>new RPMs and update "manually"?
>
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In theory, you could do this. However, there have been instances in the
past where this resulted in a wedged machine upon reboot. So I've
gotten into the habit of doing a "yum check-update" first to see what is
going to get updated before I actually commit to the update...especially
on servers in unattended locations. 8-)
Cheers,
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