Re: building from source advice

2004-02-06 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 05 February 2004 8:43 pm, Rob Weir wrote: > If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore > apt will try to install them if something depends on them. Hrm apt-get install checkinstall. It won't track dependencies but will make a .deb, .rpm or slackTGZ from the

Re: building from source advice

2004-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:43:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said > > Hi > > > > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on > > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be > > aware of

Re: building from source advice

2004-02-06 Thread dev
> >>If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore > >>apt will try to install them if something depends on them. > > > > From my (limited) experience with Gentoo I think it's possible to > > install something from source and tell emerge about it, so it won't try > > and i

Re: building from source advice

2004-02-06 Thread Jan Suchy
Dave Thorn wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:43:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be aware of if I c

Re: building from source advice

2004-02-06 Thread Dave Thorn
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:43:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said > > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on > > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be > > aware of if I choose

Re: building from source advice

2004-02-06 Thread cyril
Thanks for the advice Rob > Why? The Debian versions of apache and php include all known security > fixes, and pretty much all available modules. Well, I have had some problems with php 4.1.1 as supplied by Debian. There are some issues with the way this version handles certain things that I ca

Re: building from source advice

2004-02-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said > Hi > > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be > aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian > e

building from source advice

2004-02-05 Thread cyril
Hi as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian environment. For example I usually choose to build php / apache fr