On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:52 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 22:38 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
Rebuild from SRPM.
I was advised that installing from anything other than Yum or prebuilt RPMs would lead to system instability.
Rebuilding from SRPM and building your own RPM are two additional options many don't consider worth mentioning because most people are incapable of carrying them out.
---- that of course is a generalization and an opinion. This also reflects the state of Linux rpm packaging which is not entirely accessible to Linux users.
I agree that a lot of people don't know how to do it. I don't know about the 'most people' as I think people could actually do it if they knew how and of course one of the more confusing things for people is fishing out the finished RPM's from /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/arch
Craig