Ugo Bellavance wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
I wanted to know your guys' success rate when installing and rebuilding
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Rebuilding the prebuilt packages would seem to me to be reinventing the wheel. Is there a reason that you need to rebuild them?
Most likely to configure it differently (compiler optimizations, configure options, etc...)
-- Jim Perrin System Administrator Ft. Gordon & US Army Signal Center
Jim, Ugo -
For that, too, Jim.
Honestly, I just like to be more informed as to how the install is done. I love RPM for it's transactional ability, i.e. knowing where files are, how big, what kind, yada yada - but dislike it for it's sometimes cryptic nature. I've been doing a LOT of RPM exploration over the past few weeks, and found the process of actually creating an RPM to be a somewhat cumbersome and at times poorly documented system. I don't want to start rants over that one, but that's my firm belief.
However, things have been coming together lately.
Thanks! -dant