<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Les Mikesell</b> <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tronn Wærdahl wrote:<br><br>><br>> Even better for community support would be to package the above programs<br>> as rpms if they aren't already available that way and add your<br>> configuration script(s). That way any or all of the parts could be
<br>> installed into existing machines.<br>><br>><br>> Yes, but my intention was more like to make a appliance. Install on a<br>> clean system, have it installed on a box, and just put a away in a corner
<br><br>That works until one of the programs has an update. Then if it hasn't<br>been packaged like the rest of the system you'll have to throw your<br>appliance away and build a new one. If it has been packaged, a simple
<br>"yum update" takes care of things whether its in the centos repository<br>or some external one added to the yum configuration.<br><br>And if you do happen to want an appliance with exactly this set of<br>programs, you can still get it with "yum install your_list_of_programs"
<br> or you can package your configuration script with all the others as<br>dependencies.<br><br>--<br> Les Mikesell<br> <a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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<br clear="all">Yum is removed for ovious reasons :-)