On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:36:29AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > You can download the SRPMs from Red Hat's FTP site - Red Hat makes them
> > available for the entire Enterprise line, including updates. You can
> > also get the RPMs from whatever project you need.
>
> NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS *NOT* FLAMEFODDER. IT IS INTENDED TO BE A SUCCINCT
> STATEMENT OF THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE.
>
> So to sum up, the answer is:
>
> a) I can build them; ok, *I* can do that. Clients will have
> to either know how to do it, or pay someone--hopefully me--to
> keep 'em up2date. (Joke...)
>
> b) Hope that projects in question support the RPM model.
c) Pony up for the server product.
d) Find another distro with a more appealing support policy.
>
> In neither case is RedHat, the company, the answer for support.
> Both offer the potentiality of RPM hell (#1 if package dependencies
> aren't kept up-to-date in the SRPM; #2 for obvious reasons). If they
> don't like that, pony up for full Enterprise with support.
Well (for now at least) the SRPMS form the distribution are kept up to
date, and that seems to be a long-standing Red Hat policy.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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