On Saturday 07 August 2004 22:57, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:07:25PM -0800, Chris Lott wrote: > > Any idea how long before new software gets integrated into the RedHat > > Enterprise distributions? > > Typically major new applications won't make until the next release of > RHEL. If they break binary compatibility, Red Hat doesn't have much of > a choice - they have to wait or they'll be lynched by their customers. > > > I don't know that much about the RPM > > process, but it seems like if I need to use one of these I pretty much > > end up needing to compile everything by hand-- kind of an all RPM or > > nothing? > > I suggest you get the RPM book if you're going to take this approach - > you may find out it's not as bad as you think. Sometimes you can just > grab the existing source rpm, install it, replace the source tarball > inside, update the spec file, and rebuild. There are a few gotchas > along the way of course... With both php and mysql, you'll have to > watch for dependencies with other products like apache. Maximum RPM is available from http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm However this is rather out of date. The good folk at RH are working on an updated version, which can be read (cvs checkout) via here: http://rpm-devel.colug.net/ or if you are feeling brave you can do a cvs checkout and build it yourself - you'll get the sgml source and will need to use autoconf and automake... As far as mysql-4 goes, I have built it successfully as an rpm on my FC2 box - the source & binary rpms are available from the mysql website http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html You may have to rebuild as I can't remember which RH versions it is built for. the rebuilt rpm from their sources runs sweetly on FC2 however. kind regards Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
