Monday, January 9, 2006, 10:00:21 AM, you wrote:
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.
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.
Well, if I'm going to move to using the RPM's to save time, then I'll have to get used to the distributed layout.
QUESTION: Do most of you cron the yum updates, or do you watch for new RPMs and update "manually"?
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-)
Fortunately for me, all the remote machines have KVM and power controls, but that said, if I convert all machines to use RPMs, updates are quick and easy providing new packages don't break anything.
Thanks for the great replies all.
Mickael