On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:10 -0700, Tom Spec wrote: > Does anyone have any pros/cons of installing MySQL/Apache/PHP with > yum/rpms vs compiling it all from source? I have always done them > from source, but I thought I'd see what other people are doing. Do > you think there would be any difference in performance either way? The only reason to build your own would be if you are running an application that needs a different version than the stock rpms. If you build something non-standard you'll have to watch for security and bug fixes yourself and do rebuilds instead of letting yum keep everything up to date for you. There have been problems in various releases of mod_perl but I think php has always worked and the security fixes have been timely. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
