this and Mark Post's comments yesterday have got me re-considering rpms...thanks for everyone's responses.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: php, suse sles 2.4.7 and s390 >i've gotten used to the configure-make-make install routine. i remember >problems with rpms from a couple of years ago, and since then i've used >source-distributions whenever possible. > That may work if you have just a few systems. If you have a lot of systems you probably don't want to run that same process on each of them (and keep all the stuff on each of them - you need a lot more to build packages than you need to run them). In an area where you have test and production systems it can be attractive to have your new version packaged in a way that you can promote it to the production servers in an easy way. Rob
