[CentOS] Installing Dag's RPMs

Tue Jun 28 20:24:18 UTC 2005
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

> I wanted to know your guys' success rate when installing and rebuilding
> RPMs in CentOS (specifically 4.0) that have come from Dag's Repositories
> (http://dag.wieers.com/packages/).

dag's rpms have been 99.9999999999% flawless for me on both centos and RHEL

 
> I have noticed a number of these packages stalling at various points
> throughout an rpmbuild process, and I can't quite get it.  It looks
> almost as if they were all built for RHEL4.0, but if CentOS is supposed
> to follow so close in RHEL's footsteps, why would this be a problem?

I suspect something in your build system is possibly screwed. I've not
had any issues rebuilding the few packages I've needed to.

> 
> I'll give Dag an email and see if he has anything to say about that.
> Once I get enough information, I'll just go ahead and hack up the RPMs
> so that they work properly on my systems - but I thought I'd ask
> beforehand, as to not re-invent the wheel.

Rebuilding the prebuilt packages would seem to me to be reinventing
the wheel. Is there a reason that you need to rebuild them?

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Jim Perrin
System Administrator 
Ft. Gordon & US Army Signal Center