Yeah, it is a tough scenario and I still waver back and forth. I used to source as much as possible, but then I switched to RPMs becauseit was easier on the installs. Then I would get dependency issues base don version when I tried to upgrade or install other things and it involved a lot of fooling the applications. So, now I am back to tossing around the idea of compiling everything again. Of course it is a totally different scenario when dealing with a desktop system. No way I am compiling all the KDE and GNOME and X11 stuff. I did it once. Once. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miguel González Castaños" <mgc@xxxxxx> To: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 9:18 AM Subject: Source code compiled vs RPMs dear all, I am going to setup several server using RedHat 9. So far, I always used RedHat 7.3 as the base for installing my servers ( I am not talking about workstations). What I do is to install the minimum RPMs required in order the system to work and then after I try to install what I need from pristina tarballs, to suit my needs. So far what I have been installing is (apart of the minimum system) are linux routers and apache webservers plus any database server such as PostgreSQL or Oracle. The packages that I install from sources are: OpenSSL OpenSSH Apache + SSL PHP PostgreSQL So far I had no issues at all, I just upgrade at any time when any bug or alert arised and thats it. But I have started to mess up with apt-get and it is a nice tool to upgrade my system, but sometimes I need to keep my system how it was (not upgrading openssl, etc). Ok, going for the point ;). For instance I have tried to install wget which requires openssl. I have install it from source and create the links in the /lib directory as the RPM does, but still the RPM manager can´t install wget because there is no package openssl. I try to use no-deps and see what happens and then the system can´t somehow find the openssl libraries. I am thinking about starting to create my own RPM packages, since these tools I mentioned above I always install them from source, but maybe this is not the best (and less time-consuming) approach. I would like to hear more suggestions from you guys...I have seen that in Debian the usually create empty .deb packages to satisfy the dependencies...I have googled a bit but I dont see this possibility in RPM...Any hint? Many thanks in advance Miguel - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
