Mickael Maddison wrote:
> Ok. So basically, every response on this list feels that RPM's are
> sufficiently stable, are created fast enough to address security
> concerns that come up, and have all the 'normal' functionality that
> pretty much anyone needs... is that a fair statement?
Yes. Out of interest what features, in the apps you mentioned in your
original post, did you need to compile in that weren't in the RPMs?
> The one thing I've always liked about installing from tarball
> distributions is that I prefix everything into /usr/local -- so it's
> easy to find all the pieces. This is perhaps the one thing that I
> find most annoying about RPM; spreading things all over the place. Of
> course, being able to custom compile modules etc. has worked well.
rpm -ql packagename is easier to find the pieces than searching through
/usr/local IMHO. Anyway packages are still consistent - they put config
files in /etc, binaries in /usr/bin, libs in /usr/lib, shared files in
/usr/share and so on: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
> QUESTION: Do most of you cron the yum updates, or do you watch for
> new RPMs and update "manually"?
We have a Nagios check that notifies when updates are available. Then we
do a yum update so we can see what's going to be updated before
confirming with 'y' or 'n'.
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Tim Edwards
