Compiling by hand should really be your last resort; distros provide means to merge any changes needed to the configuration files. Some provide .new files that you can diff, even.Further, using the distro package means that you get security updates, provided that you don't use an EOL release.On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 1:18 AM Brian Wolfe <wolfebrian2120@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I personally prefer to install it by compiling the source myself. It's not hard. and then I can control what modules/features are compiled into it. So you will understand what features you have enabled rather than just installing everything. I can also install it in a central location as the distro installs the files all over the place. Nothing wrong with that as thats how system packages are supposed to be installed, but doing it manually you can control where on disk it is installed and know everything is in that one directory. Creating and registering a linux service also isn't difficult and it's good to understand how those things work anyway.On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 8:14 PM Richard <lists-apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Date: Friday, May 05, 2023 19:53:21 -0400
> From: John Iliffe <john.iliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for the prompt response David. This is on Rocky, a Red Hat
> derivative.
>
> I'll see if automatic updates are implemented. On my Fedora
> workstation they do happen automatically and I have been burned on
> occasion.
None of my RH-derived systems (RHEL, Centos, Fedora) auto-update -- I
don't remember auto-updating as a default.
If you want your system to otherwise auto-update you can exclude
specific packages from that in the yum.conf file.
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