On Thursday, 14. Mai 2009 09:54:56 Corey Chandler wrote: > MacShane, Tracy wrote: <snip> > > The OS administrators do not permit GCC and > > devel libraries on the SMTP servers I maintain (and fair enough). > > Nor should they-- this is what a staging environment is for. Build it > on a staging box, test the heck out of it, and then push the binaries > out to the production farm.
Ehm, isn't that why you use RPM? You compile the binaries and build the package on a compatible system. With the package you have an easy way to distribute the binaries. > > Also, > > installing non-RPM packages can obviously cause clashes when installing > > other RH updates (at least RPM is clever enough not to try installing > > Postfix 2.3 patches when it finds 2.5 already installed). > > Urm... add Postfix to your yum excludes file and the problem goes away. Postfix provides an MTA which is a quite important part of a *nix system. To remove the MTA package from system breaks a lot of dependencies. To avoid that you install your own package. Greetings Stefan
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