On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Darren Coleman wrote: > I'm Linux SysAdmin at the company I work for, I always install > everything from source. A colleague, a Windows SysAdmin, installs > everything on his Linux boxes from RPMs. > > What does that tell you? :)
That it depends :-) > Although I like the concept behind RPMs, and they work well for > vanilla installations (like SA oddly enough), I much prefer > compiling things from scratch with whichever machine specific > optimisations I care to implement. Which obviously doesn't make much of a difference if you are talking about software like spamassassin. It is a matter of taste, I like RPMS at home and at work because: - I can remove (or upgrade) software very easy - I can find out which file is owned by which package - I get warnings about file conflicts and dependencies - I can update lots of machines very easy with yum or apt - there are people like fedora, dag and freshrpms out there building solid RPMS for more packages than I would have time to do myself - I get the same setup on multiple machines, which can make debugging a lot easier what I don't like about RPMS: - I have to build them first, creating new spec files if I can't find one that fits christof btw: if you use redhat 9 (and maybe yum), you can get spammassassin from me here: http://christof.damian.net/redhat/9/damian/ -- Christof Damian xs03 ltd ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
