On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:21:00PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
Um, that "yum install ganglia" produces a long list of package conflicts on a current CentOS system? Or that only 3.1.7 has a fully working multicpu module, plus a number of significant bug fixes?
I just tried a ganglia install from EPEL; absolutely no issues at all. Perhaps if you'd bother to actually document these conflicts one of us might be able to help. That is if we're still willing.
I can't speak to your claims of 3.1.7 having bug fixes and the multicpu issue; but I saw no conflicts with EPEL's 3.0.7.
If there were a good CentOS build of 3.1.7 I'd happily use it. But getting stuff from EPEL, which is essentially Redhat testing, is as silly as mixing
Uh, you've confused EPEL and Fedora apparently.
stuff from Debian testing into Debian stable, as far as enterprise systems go. On the other hand, I've run a number of enterprise systems on Gentoo. I'm sure the compiling of everything from source there gives you absolute
Gentoo is fine for a toy os. Claiming Gentoo is "enterprise" is just silly.
horrors. But those systems treated me well for years. Now I'm in a mixed Ubuntu/CentOS environment, and I stay with distro packages ... until I don't. When there's a specific program that I need compiled with different options or whatever, well, I've been a Linux sysadmin since '93. I kind of know what I'm doing.
If you say so.
What's with you kids these days? Compiling something from tar isn't going to blow things up. At least it's never bitten me, in 17 years.
Kids? Heh. 17 years? Heh. You're a youngster. Let me know when you've got 25+ years in the industry and then I might be impressed :)
John