On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:21:00PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > > Um, that "yum install ganglia" produces a long list of package conflicts on > a current CentOS system? Or that only 3.1.7 has a fully working multicpu > module, plus a number of significant bug fixes? I just tried a ganglia install from EPEL; absolutely no issues at all. Perhaps if you'd bother to actually document these conflicts one of us might be able to help. That is if we're still willing. I can't speak to your claims of 3.1.7 having bug fixes and the multicpu issue; but I saw no conflicts with EPEL's 3.0.7. > If there were a good CentOS build of 3.1.7 I'd happily use it. But getting > stuff from EPEL, which is essentially Redhat testing, is as silly as mixing Uh, you've confused EPEL and Fedora apparently. > stuff from Debian testing into Debian stable, as far as enterprise systems > go. On the other hand, I've run a number of enterprise systems on Gentoo. > I'm sure the compiling of everything from source there gives you absolute Gentoo is fine for a toy os. Claiming Gentoo is "enterprise" is just silly. > horrors. But those systems treated me well for years. Now I'm in a mixed > Ubuntu/CentOS environment, and I stay with distro packages ... until I > don't. When there's a specific program that I need compiled with different > options or whatever, well, I've been a Linux sysadmin since '93. I kind of > know what I'm doing. If you say so. > What's with you kids these days? Compiling something from tar isn't going to > blow things up. At least it's never bitten me, in 17 years. Kids? Heh. 17 years? Heh. You're a youngster. Let me know when you've got 25+ years in the industry and then I might be impressed :) John -- Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. -- George Ade (1866 - 1944), American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100617/1a561676/attachment-0005.sig>