On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:25:26 -0600 Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quietly intimated:
> On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 10:33, David Talkington wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Bret Hughes wrote: > > > > >it is the Xfree and gnome libs stuff that is needed and that leads > > >me down the road to dependency hell. > > > > Oh for Pete's sake, Brother Hughes, just build it from official > > source. You don't need X-anything for sshd. > > yeah I know but I REALLY like having the rpms so I can easily (read > hard to make mistatkes) upgrade all machines. I only have 6 or 7 of > these 6.x boxes and don't anticipate anymore but I have 32 7.x boxes > with more coming and since I still can't afford to have someone be a > dedicated admin I have to try and make this as quick and easy as > possible. > > The ability to rpm -Fvh * a directory on all machines is just too > easy. > > Thanks for the tips though I will keep this in mind. > > Bret Checkinstall is the answer. Make RPMs on one of each machine and distribute it to the other like machines. It's really simple, and as long as there aren't any major library differences between all of the 6.x boxes, they shouldn't have any problems installing a version made on another 6.x box. Ditto on the 7.x machines. -- Windows: Because I'm forced. Linux: Because I can! _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
