[CentOS] Which libtiff 3.8.2 do I grab?

[Dan Trainor]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> At 03:27 PM 5/26/2006, Dan Trainor wrote:
> 
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>> At 02:35 PM 5/26/2006, Dan Trainor wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Via google:  libtiff 3.8.2
>>>>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2839214/com/libtiff-3.8.2-2.x86_64.rpm.html 
>>>>>
>>>>> This got me to a page all about libtiff 3.8.2 for 'Fedora other'  
>>>>> and a link
>>>>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&search=libtiff&srodzaj=3
>>>>> for other distributions.
>>>>> So which do I take?
>>>>> ? 
>>>>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2845370/com/libtiff-3.8.2-2.i386.rpm.html 
>>>>>
>>>>> please, I really want to get this going!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi -
>>>>
>>>> I do not believe that libtiff 3.8.2 is available for CentOS - only 
>>>> 3.6.1-8 and 3.6.1-10.
>>>>
>>>> Remember, the goal of the CentOS project is not to provide bleeding 
>>>> edge software, so you may well get stuck with a slightly older version.
>>>
>>>
>>> So the Asterisk AT Home gang that have built on Centos may have a 
>>> real problem with spandsp.
>>
>>
>> Hi, RObert -
>>
>> Well, no - not necessarily.  Remember, we try to keep as close to RHEL 
>> as we can.  In fact, I don't know of anything that's actually modified 
>> to be special for CentOS, aside from the usual.
>>
>> The *@home guys probably built their own RPMs or installs for their 
>> setup.  Even though it's based on CentOS, doesn't mean it has to BE 
>> CentOS - it could be a heavily modified version, including additional 
>> libraries which are mroe bleeding edge, e.g. libtiff-3.8.2.
>>
>> Hope that clears some thigns up for you.
> 
> 
> I know the Centos philosophy.  I have a number of Centos servers here 
> and building more.  My mail server is Scalix running on Centos.
> 
> The AAH people (actually one person according to the sourceforge page) 
> has done a great you adding the best Asterisk products on top of 
> Centos.  The libtiff-3.6.1-10 is from Centos 4.3.  Sometime back Centos 
> had libtiff 3.6.0 which the spandsp author said works well and that 
> 3.6.1 is broken.
> 
> So those of us doing a new install are finding out that faxing is not 
> working.  So I (and many others) have to replace libtiff with either the 
> older working version or 3.8.2.  And when AAH 2.9 comes out with finally 
> an update mechanism (instead of a reinstall), hopefully the right 
> libtiff will be in the AAH iso.
> 
> 

Robert -

I am not doubting that you understand the CentOS philosophy by any 
means.  Sometimes I find it necessary to do tweaks such as this one, for 
example with PHP and MySQL RPMs.  I just try to keep it as close as I 
can to the "stock" CentOS distribution as I can, for obvious reasons.

Just wanted to clarify.

Thanks!
-dant