You should really try rug/rc from ximian .... they have made installing anything on a redhat system as quick as typing
rug install spamassassin it will fetch and install all of the dependencies and you can do something else .... or if you use slackware you can use swaret that is very similar but just uses the ftp mirrors David Rodgers On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:17, Roger Merchberger wrote: > At 12:45 10/16/2003 -0400, Terry Milnes wrote: > >Hold it a sec, not all rpms contain the source, in fact unless things have > >changed I thought that most contained precompiled binaries, and that was > >the problem with them. > > Correct. Source RPMS (.src.rpm) have the source; otherwise (unless it's a > perl package or something interpreted/bytecoded/etc) it's a precompiled > binary -> compiled for the lowest common denominator (usually i386) and not > very optimized, at least in my experience. > > All Hail LFS!!! ;^> > > >eg. webserver, contains many parts, core of which is apache, mysql, > >php. I want each of these componants installed as independantly as > >possible, so that in the event of upgrading one (or a componant of one) it > >has minimum impact on the other. > > My biggest gripe as well. My 2nd biggest is dependencies - often you can't > uninstall something you don't want without uninstalling something you *do* > want, unless you --nodeps, which can break a lot of other stuff, anyway... > <sigh> > > All Hail LFS!!! ;^> > > And now back to your regularly scheduled off-topic drivel... > Laterz, > Roger "Merch" Merchberger > > -- > Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
