On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 07:35, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Jul 23, 2004, at 7:15 AM, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: > > > Excuse my RH ignorance, I've been working mainly with other > > distributions the past few years. Why would you care to make your own > > RPM from the source tarball instead of just compiling it? Is it ease of > > distribution to a farm of IMAP servers or are you just so used to > > working with RPM? (just curious...). > > Ease of deployment, ease of removal, rpm verification, etc. Heck, it's > even easier than compiling from source. Unless you're patching custom, > I can't imagine a reason NOT to use the developer-supplied method for > compiling the RPM from source. I don't see configure as being difficult. You have to use it to build the RPM anyway, right? I install in /usr/local/courier-version, so removing is very easy. I'm not sure what you mean by rpm verification, configure should check for all the required libraries anyway. Does installing courier as an RPM prevent a required library dependency from getting removed/upgraded in the future and breaking courier? Lloyd -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
