Up to about a year ago, I did everything from source. This was primarily due to features and bug fixes were very slow to be implemented in the standard RPM's. I didn't have a very good handle on RPM at the time, so I'd download the source and recompile. This worked OK for a while, but when I had to support several instances on production servers, this began to become a tedious job. RPM's are the best way of handling software on production web/database servers. Just get comfy with RPM and download all the patches. Many times I will have updated RPM's that are three rev's higher than the distro, and when a new release from Fedora occurs, I'll back-out of my version of the RPM and update with the official RPM. That way I can feel a bit more secure that more people have had their eyes on the source and most of the patch bugs have been worked out. Robert On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 19:42 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > 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? > > > I have always used the distribution method of install (yum for Fedora) > and it "just works". > > I did not want the hassle of trying to do it from scratch and maybe > forgetting to install a library/development package that was needed but > easily overlooked. > > Probably an insignificant difference in performance, if any. > > > Tom > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
