I find that the maintainers of the RPMs (at RedHat, and by reference, CentOS) are much more punctual in updating their stuff than I am. So, I prefer to use RPMs whereever possible. To do it all yourself requires constant vigilance and I'm a busy guy... In combination with yum, I'm almost never out of current; a problem I always had in the past. There are still a few things I have to compile and manage with checkinstall, but they are few, now. Viva RPM and yum! -Ben On Monday 09 January 2006 00:18, Mickael Maddison wrote: > Hello CentOS, > > I'm an old hat, and have been compiling my own MySQL, Apache, PHP, > OpenSSL, ModSSL, etc. for my webservers for years. I'm playing around > with the RPM installs on CentOS, and have basically been able to get > most things setup so that they "function" about the same. > > If I could stick to RPM's rather than compiling my own sources, it > would save me a fair bit of time, but of course, it would limit the > customization benefit. what I'm wondering, is if anyone on this list > has any good reasons why one method would be better, more secure, etc > than the other. I'm tempted to start using RPM's instead of compile > sources. > > Comments appreciated, thanks. > > -- > Best regards, > Mickael > mailto:centos at silverservers.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978