On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 09/04/2011 05:49 PM, Gary Gatling wrote: >> I think that advice about not using source tarballs is very good for >> beginners but once you've been using Red Hat Linux for a while you are >> going to want to install some newer software to get some software you care >> about to work. I have tons of stuff I've installed in /usr/local and /opt >> and everything installed there works very well for me. I did not feel >> like dealing with making a spec file for software only I will ever care >> about. :) > > Remi's repository has Firefox and Thunderbird src.rpms for Fedora. > Latest is 6.0.1. I've fixed spec file and recompiled them for CentOS 6, > but so far only for x86_64, and they are not signed yet. It works as > expected, in fact I am writing from Thunderbird 6.0.1 installed via yum. > I am planing to create packages that will install jre/java symlinks for > Firefox so it works without any modifications. > As soon as I make some changes so Remi's spec can be used unchanged for > EL6, I am going to contact him so he can build them for his repository. > > The goal should always be to install everything from yum, so you can > easily deploy copies of your system, and to avoid "it does not work" > nightmares. Yes. You are 100% correct about that with things where you need to replicate the software to many systems or users. Like I would never try this hack with a lab of systems. The Red Hat packaged browser is "good enough" for that for sure. :) And of course I won't care about web servers or file servers, etc. Why I use repoforge is to easily get all those awesome fedora packages so I can build interesting software that would otherwise fail. So I am extremely grateful for that service and also the stuff that actually helps me use CentOS as a laptop OS. Things like vlc so I can watch DVD movies. Or drivers for my wireless card in an old OS like centOS 5. A lot of the stuff I build from source are weird emulators that there are no rpms for. And they are only going to be on one box for one user. So thanks for all these packages here. I do appriciate the service. I'll shut up now and completely agree with folks if you hack the OS you shouldn't expect the repo to fix around your oddities. like with /lib vs /lib64. Its not a bug. Cheers, Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
