On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:47:17AM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 07:05, Fons van der Beek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was googling my way in finding an howto "howto install mysql 4.0 on fedora
> > core 2",
....
>
> In the last few months I have come to the opinion that in a production
> environment I prefer to build the major packages being used from
> source. By doing so I am able to free my self from depending on someone
> else producing an rpm package for the particular OS I am using.
....
> I like the idea of using rpms and letting yum sort out the dependencies
> for me. And I will use them for other lesser packages, but for the
> major applications I believe now that building from source is a better
> way to do it.
This is a good idea and if you have the luxury you can use two boxes
to this end. By working with standard rpm's you might discover a
dependency, update or interaction that you might have missed.
With rpm's it is nice to check for updates then decide if you want to
build fresh or use the rpm distribution binary or source on your
production system.
There are three key source contexts:
patches back ported
latest stable
upstream development
Each has slightly different implications to the system admin. I
happen to like the backporting of security and error patches that RH
does.
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