Karanbir Singh Mail-Lists@karan.org wrote:
I disagree, a Tarball also gives you no reliable upgrade / update options.
Unless, of course, "rpmbuild -tb mysrc.tar.gz" works. ;->
If you have a problem with the way .rpm was built, grab the src.rpm and rebuild to suit yourself.
Agreed. That's typically how you want to handle it.
Going tarball should be last resort.
Assuming you can't find an .rpm in a repository you trust to be free of "inter-repository hell" with your existing selection.
hummmm, I've had way too many issues with FC repo's on EL Distro's that I no longer consider that to be a real option
- nothing for a newbie who dosent understand
repo-management
completely.
Agreed. Especially with DAG around.
[ And I've had a lot of "bad taste" left in my mouth from FreshRPMS.NET in 2003-2004 that I stuck with Fedora Project/Extras, and DAG when they didn't work. ]
Wait a minute. Have you actually ever tried this on a CentOS4 machine ? Dag has dvd-rip in his repository, but did not build for EL4 the last time he ran through a build cycle. I'll look at the buildlogs later in the day today and see what the issue really was. If you can wait for a _day_ then getting it from dag's repo is going to be the best option.
Agreed.