[CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?
Michael Lampe
lampe at gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de
Wed Dec 28 23:02:03 UTC 2011
Reindl Harald wrote:
> it IS DIRTY because it does NOT remove obsoleted files
> and yes i have seen environemnets where as example mysql did not
> compile any longer as long all pieces of the old version were not
> deleted manually
Hardly ever do I type 'make install'. I stick to
Base/Updates/Epel/Elrepo. Only if it's really necessary do I install
other stuff. And I normally put quite some effort into it: I produce
proper RPMs.
> working on a modern OS beside the apckage-managment is just silly
> you have no clear dependencies, you have no migration-path, you
> have no clean rollback - you are doing a dirty job working so
Well ...
I'll tell the users of our cluster (which I happen to manage as an
extra) that they cannot submit any jobs any longer because their stuff
is not and cannot be installed as an RPM ...
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