On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
Agreed that it's good to know how - but 'there isn't any rpm' should really mean there isn't any rpm at any well-maintained location, not just in the base system or that you didn't bother to look. Every time you build something yourself you are taking on the job of maintaining it forever and probably leaving people in a lurch when you leave and someone else has to figure out what non-standard things you did.
i agree with this. i'm looking for extra goodies that don't involve possibly violating corporate IT policy by downloading and building new packages to be installed on mission-critical servers. there are certainly enough existing packages at trustworthy repos that i don't need to go beyond that.
rday