On 7/12/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > Tronn Wærdahl wrote: > > > > > Even better for community support would be to package the above > programs > > as rpms if they aren't already available that way and add your > > configuration script(s). That way any or all of the parts could be > > installed into existing machines. > > > > > > Yes, but my intention was more like to make a appliance. Install on a > > clean system, have it installed on a box, and just put a away in a > corner > > That works until one of the programs has an update. Then if it hasn't > been packaged like the rest of the system you'll have to throw your > appliance away and build a new one. If it has been packaged, a simple > "yum update" takes care of things whether its in the centos repository > or some external one added to the yum configuration. > > And if you do happen to want an appliance with exactly this set of > programs, you can still get it with "yum install your_list_of_programs" > or you can package your configuration script with all the others as > dependencies. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Yum is removed for ovious reasons :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070712/237b33e6/attachment-0004.html>