On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 08:00 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > On Oct 24, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Mark Adams wrote:
> When you only install programs from source, how do you know when > upgrading them that there aren't remnants of binaries or libraries > scattered around the OS? Well designed programs have a "make uninstall" option. So, you would go back to the orignial source, run make uninstall, then make install on the new source. > So when using > source compiles, I have this ingrained flinch towards the idea of just > running a compile and installing the results then trying to do an > upgrade if there's no version control, etc. built into it (which I > suppose is why RPM and apt-get and all the other packagers are so > popular...supposedly they help prevent conflicts from upgrades) Right, which is why I've taken to building SRPMs for every package I install if there is no pre-built one. it's not terribly difficult, just time consuming. For Mandrake users, you can usually snag the SRPM for a recent version from cooker or plf and update the source for a new version in just a couple of minutes. For clam 0.80 there were extensive changes to the config files, so it took me a good week to get all of the config patches the way I wanted them. _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
