Re: software packages module

[Les B. <le...@le...>]

Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...> wrote:

>>
If this bugs you, you can usually install newer packages on older Red
Hat releases just by rebuilding them...this isn't always true, but the
changes required are usually minimal.  This keeps everything in a
package so that you don't have to remember everything you've ever
installed and keep up with security issues, paths, etc.  The RPM
database can do it for you.
<<

One tool that some people rave about is Checkinstall
(http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/) which claims to
automagically create RPM's, DEB's, etc. from source tarballs and install
them, thereby keeping the RPM database complete. I've never used it myself,
but . . .

Best,

--- Les Bell, CISSP
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]