Top posting is bad on mailing lists mkay?
On 1/18/06, Dan Wright <dwright134@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
Building source on an rpm based distribution is bad mmmm'kay
It doesn't play nice with rpm/yum because there are no rpmdb entries
for software installed from source. It makes updates tricky, and can
have unexpected consequences depending on what is linked to first,
path entries or overwritten files on update. It makes software audits
more complicated in production environments. Etc,etc, etc. It's just
not a nice thing to do to your server.
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Jim Perrin
System Architect - UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
