Re: [CentOS] Advise on RPM vs. Compiling source

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:57:39 +0000 (GMT) Jun Salen nokijun@yahoo.com wrote:

Need some advice on installing postfix in CentOS4. Which is better, installing by yum or rpm -i or by compiling from source code? What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of each. Thanks.

The Wiki lists some cons/pros:

http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls

Your standard modus operandi should be installing from the CentOS repositories with yum. It is the only thing that is supported and well-tested. It is also the only way to automatically get security updates for Postfix from the CentOS project through yum.

There are exceptions to the rule, but you'll know when you encounter them :^).

-- Daniel