Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
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>>>I wanted to know your guys' success rate when installing and rebuilding
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> <snip>
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>>Rebuilding the prebuilt packages would seem to me to be reinventing
>>the wheel. Is there a reason that you need to rebuild them?
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> Most likely to configure it differently (compiler optimizations,
> configure options, etc...)
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>>--
>>Jim Perrin
>>System Administrator
>>Ft. Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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>
Jim, Ugo -
For that, too, Jim.
Honestly, I just like to be more informed as to how the install is done.
I love RPM for it's transactional ability, i.e. knowing where files
are, how big, what kind, yada yada - but dislike it for it's sometimes
cryptic nature. I've been doing a LOT of RPM exploration over the past
few weeks, and found the process of actually creating an RPM to be a
somewhat cumbersome and at times poorly documented system. I don't want
to start rants over that one, but that's my firm belief.
However, things have been coming together lately.
Thanks!
-dant
