On Aug 26, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Perhaps what we really need is a wiki page to allay the fears
of the people who pathetically find such difficulty in "./
configure;make;make install".That's fine if you have only a single system and don't need to
track installed files through a packaging system.
I currently maintain about thirty systems of three different
processor architectures and four different OSs (*different OSs*, not
"different Linux 'distros'"). It isn't a problem (or even a
bottleneck) in that environment. Several good centralized software
management schemes have been around for a very, very long time. I
don't use *any* "package management" systems...they are more trouble
than they're worth. The very existence of this thread is an example. ;)
At the very least, one should wrap that idiom in the distro's
packaging scheme, such as "rpmbuild --rebuild dovecot- xxxx.src.rpm ; su ; rpm -Uvh dovecot-xxxx.i386.rpm".
Hmm, that does sound like a good idea.
-Dave-- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007