Monday, January 9, 2006, 10:00:21 AM, you wrote: > Mickael Maddison wrote: >>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. >> >> >> > You can still do this if you download the source rpm and edit the prefix > in the .spec file. I used to do this for a number of packages, but I've > gotten lazy over the years and have gotten used to leaving most stuff > where it defaults to. Well, if I'm going to move to using the RPM's to save time, then I'll have to get used to the distributed layout. >>QUESTION: Do most of you cron the yum updates, or do you watch for >>new RPMs and update "manually"? >> >> > In theory, you could do this. However, there have been instances in the > past where this resulted in a wedged machine upon reboot. So I've > gotten into the habit of doing a "yum check-update" first to see what is > going to get updated before I actually commit to the update...especially > on servers in unattended locations. 8-) Fortunately for me, all the remote machines have KVM and power controls, but that said, if I convert all machines to use RPMs, updates are quick and easy providing new packages don't break anything. Thanks for the great replies all. Mickael