On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 06:00:20PM +0100, Marinko Tarlac wrote:
Just one comment from a system management point of view: if you run CentOS, meant as a stable production OS, you probably wants to care for not screwing up your system. Installing software without an RPM, especially software that already is provided by the distro itself, is the *worst* thing someone can do.
Your opinion is not always good. In this case, you're wrong. CentOS goes with FR 1.1.3 and it is few years behind 2.1.1
This issue was addressed in my second paragraph...
Rebuilding Fedora packages is a NO-No for me because Fedora is a test distro and it is good if you need new ideas, packages, test software, etc. ... Using Fedora packages sometimes can produce more pain than any other idea.
I do not suggest to use Fedora binary packages, but I propose to use the Fedora src.rpm's as a base (often this is ok) for a proper new CentOS/RHEL package for your own use. Or what else? Is just running ./confugure; make; make install (and not using RPMs at all) better than taking a Fedora src.rpm to start with? -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204