On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 11:10, Mickael Maddison wrote:
Ok. So basically, every response on this list feels that RPM's are sufficiently stable, are created fast enough to address security concerns that come up, and have all the 'normal' functionality that pretty much anyone needs... is that a fair statement?
You might have an exception or two where for some local situation you need to have the latest available version or some special option set during a compile but the RPMs are fine for normal use.
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.
But rpm keeps track of everything. There is no equivalent of 'rpm -e packagename' to remove all parts of a tarball installed package. If you do need a slight customization you can download the src rpm and tweak it.
QUESTION: Do most of you cron the yum updates, or do you watch for new RPMs and update "manually"?
I do them manually because I don't like surprises, but try not to get too far behind.