sounds like a good way to keep my installs consistent. thanks for the pointer, I'll look into it. Lloyd On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 15:51, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > You might look at rpmbuild. It will create rpm's out of source tarballs, > if the spec file is created properly. That way you could download the > source and use a build script for your boxes that don't have rpm, and > rpmbuild to create the rpm's for those that do. > > Ben > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: > > > Yup, already got that one. Thanks for the warning though. > > > > I usually ./configure with my own --prefix anyway because I run multiple > > instances of apache on each server. I'm probably more worried about > > running one server with ip based virtual hosts instead of multiple > > apache instances than the file locations. I'll have to think a little > > harder about tuning... > > > > Another disadvantage to rpm for me is that I have other non-rpm boxes > > (Solaris, gentoo, xBSD) that I don't have rpm and must build from source > > on and I like the flexibility of using the same build scripts on each > > system. Also, I can usually get the latest source quicker than waiting > > on an rpm. > > > > In the end though, I'm mainly looking to save time. Even something as > > common as upgrading to the latest version of apache takes quite a bit of > > time when you're talking about 5-7 hosts and 15-20 web sites... So if > > rpm will save me a few hours time every few months, I can probably live > > with its shortcomings. I can always back out later anyway. > > > > Lloyd > > > > > > On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:08, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote: > > > You want to be careful about rpm based apache after you are used to source > > > based apache because the source based apache builds it all under > > > /usr/local/apache and the rpm based stuff drops it all over the place i.e.: > > > /sbin/httpd /etc/httpd/conf etcetera etcetera. > > > > > > Regards, Marshall > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
