[CentOS] Ganglia

Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:22:35PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote:
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>> 	If you want shiny and new, why not do it properly and build
>> 	rpms?
>
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> On the whole, this list is professional. I like that. But look,
> "./configure, make, make install" is _always_ a proper option. Any serious
> business will have need of building on occassional program with different
> flags than the distro's default, whatever the distro. I often end up
> building a few core applications that way, as do many other sysadmins in
> serious business settings. If you don't need to, that's fine. Some
> businesses can wear off-the-rack cloths. Others need tailored garments.

you didn't get it Whit, John was not saying "stick to what's in the 
distro [or trusted 3rd party repos]".
He was suggesting to build your own rpms when needed. This allows you to 
use whatever version, build flags, options etc, just like your 
configure-make-make install solution. But it has many advantages, 
including easier housekeeping and dep management, deploying to many 
systems, pushing new versions, etc....