[CentOS] Was: Re: looking for cool, post-install things, is custom software

Fri Sep 17 21:32:17 UTC 2010
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Subject: [CentOS] Was: Re:  looking for cool, post-install things,
>     is custom software
> 
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
>>>> All I'm saying is that it often turns out to be a whole lot more work
>>>> than the initial 'configure, make, make install', so you either have to
>>>> train the users to do their own copies in their own space so it will
> <snip>
>> If you have different users needing these things on the same machine you
>> must at least have run into situations where someone needs one version
>> of a CPAN module or a new php/python/mysql version when at the same time
>> someone else is running something that won't work with it.
>>
>> You might have run into the CPAN issue if you installed something like
>> RT in the Centos 4 era.
>
> Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new
> release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from
> Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit....

Can you find that out via TCP/IP, or not ?

Keith