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Re: [Plug] RH 6.0 Installs
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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Aaron Brown wrote:
> It leave more space, and also in some cases i will just not install
> really all that much and recompile the RPM from the source RPM.
>
> rpm --rebuild foo.i386.rpm
Minor Quibble: source RPMs are usually names .srpm, not .rpm.
> then you get an RPM that is better tuned to your system, it seems to work
> beter for me. Either that or get the source and compile it yourself, like
> with apache, I would rather compile it myself then go with the default
> RH installation. I dont like how it puts things all over the place and is
> very unorganized.
What I would suggest, in that case, is building your own custom RPM. You
can either take the existing SRPM and modify it, or build a new RPM from
the original source. This allows you to still gain the benefits of the
package manager. I've done this for Ghostscript (I made an RPM for a
compile go GS5 that included the printer I have) and pgp (I don't like the
legal grey area of pgpi, and I don't like how it includes md5sum, when
it's included in textutils which is a standard package).
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 1999
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