Mickael Maddison wrote: > Ok. So basically, every response on this list feels that RPM's are > sufficiently stable, are created fast enough to address security > concerns that come up, and have all the 'normal' functionality that > pretty much anyone needs... is that a fair statement? Yes. Out of interest what features, in the apps you mentioned in your original post, did you need to compile in that weren't in the RPMs? > 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. rpm -ql packagename is easier to find the pieces than searching through /usr/local IMHO. Anyway packages are still consistent - they put config files in /etc, binaries in /usr/bin, libs in /usr/lib, shared files in /usr/share and so on: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > QUESTION: Do most of you cron the yum updates, or do you watch for > new RPMs and update "manually"? We have a Nagios check that notifies when updates are available. Then we do a yum update so we can see what's going to be updated before confirming with 'y' or 'n'. -- Tim Edwards