[afnog] Apache2-PHP5 Installation Issues

[Mark Tinka]

On Monday 31 July 2006 09:25, Hervey Allen wrote:

> A minor issue is if you attempt to update your install from
> RPM in the future. If the new RPM is built expecting things
> to have been done a certain way in prior RPMs, then what
> happens?

The other problem is that most popular Linux distributions 
include update utilities that check remote FTP server for 
updated RPM's - download an update for an RPM that was built 
from source-rpm will overwrite your previous installation, and 
any custom compile-time options you chose.

The other issue I find interesting (although not a big one), is 
that most .spec files require a host of other packages to be 
installed to enable a successful build process. This can be 
issue if you have disk space concerns, and also increases the 
number of (possibly unncessary) packages to update over FTP 
connections, which can tax slower, more expensive Internet links 
that much more.

Cheers,

Mark.
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