Re: RHEL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Shridhar Daithankar
Subject Re: RHEL
Date
Msg-id 200311141144.13297.shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.com
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In response to Re: RHEL  (Bjørn T Johansen <btj@havleik.no>)
List pgsql-general
On Friday 14 November 2003 01:19, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> Well, I have never seen any advantages in a package system... :)
> As a developer, I like having full control of what I compile....
>
>
> BTJ
>
> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:45, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Bjørn T Johansen writes:
> > > Just a question... Are there any reasons not to just take the source
> > > and compile it under RHEL 3.0? Or am I missing something?
> >
> > Yes, all the advantages that a package system gives you.

Use checkinstall. Best of both worlds. It is still short of a well built
package but in general far better than just a source compile..

 Shridhar


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