<quote who="Tony Earnshaw">
Gavin Henry skrev, on 12-09-2007 11:22:
Red Hat/FC/CentOS people should *never* build from a virgin tarball unless it's absolutely necessary, this statement after many years' experience with both methods. In 99% of all cases, rpms or srpms are available for all the above platforms.
Well, unless they know what they are doing ;-)
One could argue that, if they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't ...
This is quite off topic now, but I'd love you to share your packaging experience and recommendations. Maybe you would do a FAQ entry that I can link into from the Admin Guide.
Gavin.