Centos 5.2 How To

[Marinko Tarlac]

Jos Vos wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:16:50PM +0100, Marinko Tarlac wrote:
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>> configure is your friend. Read output and install what is needed.
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> 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

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.

MT

> For RHEL/CentOS, if you're not happy with the distro version (I had
> the same problem with CentOS 4), you should carefully backport
> (often a rebuild is enough) a recent Fedora RPM and install that.
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