On 1/18/06, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
Top posting is bad on mailing lists mkay?
On 1/18/06, Dan Wright dwright134@gmail.com wrote:
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
Building source on an rpm based distribution is bad mmmm'kay
It doesn't play nice with rpm/yum because there are no rpmdb entries for software installed from source. It makes updates tricky, and can have unexpected consequences depending on what is linked to first, path entries or overwritten files on update. It makes software audits more complicated in production environments. Etc,etc, etc. It's just not a nice thing to do to your server.
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-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Is this better? I apologize for my blatant disregard for proper mailing list etiquette mmm'kay. I guess we could also argue that all the white space in your post is a waste of bandwidth, but I degress.
Well anyways..... Thank you for bringing to my attention that a newer version of ruby exists for CentOS. I was not aware of that fact.
Dan