From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Gonz=E1lez_Casta=F1os?= Subject: Source code compiled vs RPMs Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 15:18:01 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40BB3089.5040402@tid.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org dear all, I am going to setup several server using RedHat 9. So far, I always=20 used RedHat 7.3 as the base for installing my servers ( I am not talkin= g=20 about workstations). What I do is to install the minimum RPMs required in order the system=20 to work and then after I try to install what I need from pristina=20 tarballs, to suit my needs. So far what I have been installing is (apart of the minimum system) ar= e=20 linux routers and apache webservers plus any database server such as=20 PostgreSQL or Oracle. The packages that I install from sources are: OpenSSL OpenSSH Apache + SSL PHP PostgreSQL So far I had no issues at all, I just upgrade at any time when any bug= =20 or alert arised and thats it. But I have started to mess up with apt-get and it is a nice tool to=20 upgrade my system, but sometimes I need to keep my system how it was=20 (not upgrading openssl, etc). Ok, going for the point ;). For instance I have tried to install wget=20 which requires openssl. I have install it from source and create the=20 links in the /lib directory as the RPM does, but still the RPM manager=20 can=B4t install wget because there is no package openssl. I try to use=20 no-deps and see what happens and then the system can=B4t somehow find t= he=20 openssl libraries. I am thinking about starting to create my own RPM packages, since thes= e=20 tools I mentioned above I always install them from source, but maybe=20 this is not the best (and less time-consuming) approach. I would like to hear more suggestions from you guys...I have seen that= =20 in Debian the usually create empty .deb packages to satisfy the=20 dependencies...I have googled a bit but I dont see this possibility in=20 RPM...Any hint? Many thanks in advance Miguel =20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html