OT: Gentoo, Red Hat, etc. (was Re: [Mimedefang] Latest MIME-Tools)

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Mon Mar 22 18:48:21 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:13, Kelson Vibber wrote:
> >RPM is really quite lame.

> I don't think it's a failing of RPM so much as it's a failing of package 
> managers in general - namely, if you install anything that the PM doesn't 
> know about, it acts as if it isn't there.  The only way you can get around 
> that is if you can override the PM and tell it, "Look, Perl's really 
> installed.  I know I can't tell you in detail where all the files are, or 
> what libraries and utilities it depends on, but it's installed, honest!"

There are two approaches that work.  One is to keep locally compiled
things under /usr/local which is often their default, and adjust your
PATH to use them instead of the system version when desired. The other
is write a spec file (you can usually adapt the old one from RH) to
build your own RPM.  The latter way keeps the RPM database up to date,
makes it easy to install on other machines, and makes it possible to
uninstall everything.

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