Re: [SLUG] RPM vs source installs, can it cause probs ?

2006-12-28 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Thu, December 28, 2006 10:45 am, Penedo wrote: > On 28/12/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haven't tried this myself (being a Debian person) but how feasible would > it be for Voytek to try to create RPM's for the versions he's interested > in? in case of Postfix I generally ma

Re: [SLUG] RPM vs source installs, can it cause probs ?

2006-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Penedo wrote: > On 28/12/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Voytek Eymont wrote: >> > if I decide to do a source install for some of the applications, am I >> > likely to cause myself grief later on? >> >> It's possible that the source installs will need later version libraries >>

Re: [SLUG] RPM vs source installs, can it cause probs ?

2006-12-27 Thread Zhasper
On 12/28/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Penedo wrote: > On 28/12/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Voytek Eymont wrote: >> > if I decide to do a source install for some of the applications, am I >> > likely to cause myself grief later on? >> >> It's possible

Re: [SLUG] RPM vs source installs, can it cause probs ?

2006-12-27 Thread Penedo
On 28/12/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: > if I decide to do a source install for some of the applications, am I > likely to cause myself grief later on? It's possible that the source installs will need later version libraries than those that are part of t

[SLUG] RPM vs source installs, can it cause probs ?

2006-12-27 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm installing Centos 4.4, I've added dag's RPM site , so I can now 'yum install mostthings', that works fine (thanks for the comments on that query) but, looking at say ProFTPD and Postfix, the readily available RPMs are somewhat backlevel to source versions if I decide to do a source install f