On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Michael T. Reiff wrote:
Well ... you're perfectly right ; I have SuSE running since the days of the 4.x releases, and they have *NEVER* managed to keep their sources in consistency with the binaries they ship.
This is one thing, I never felt any need to compile apache myself (since "August '95'"-SuSE).
Forget about SuSE built rpm's and srm's anyway.
Why should I? If I want a SuSE, I take a SuSE - if I want to do things myself, I can take Slackware or Debian... Any package on my system compiled from tarballs renders the rpm databases useless.
I highly advise that you'd use this method too, since thus you also get around SuSE's plain stupidity (sorry folks, gotta
Ooops.
say this) of putting packages like Samba, Apache a.s.o. (imagine, typical *NETWORKING* packages) in /usr/local .
Ok, /usr/LOCAL might not be right - as pointed out, in 6.1 and 6.2, these packages are installed under /usr.
Hey SUSE folks, are you reading this ??? As the name says, /usr/local typically is a *LOCAL* mount. Stuff like Apache or
/usr/local usually IS distributed among the network. (quote from FHS: "It may be used for programs and data that are sharable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr") Lets look at the Filesystem Hirarchy Standard (YOU probably want to get it from somewhere else, I installed fhs.rpm). /usr - sharable, static (why the fsck do you want binaries on /var??? You cant/shouldnt mount /var ro) /opt - Add-on application software packages. Apache and Samba definitely are essential system software, no add-on application. Couldnt find any DB2 package on my CDs... I dont feel that /var is a "typical" nfs mount. Do you share /var/tmp and stuff? Others than /var/spool?
Once again, better forget about SuSE's sources that are shipped with the distribution.
You might be right - but at least, they work. 12:12am up 265 days, 13:50, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.05, 0.01 little server, never since it was built (and the first - and last - kernel was compiled) 12:12am up 56 days, 22:34, 19 users, load average: 0.00, 0.30, 0.31 busy server (ok, not right now - its after midnight ;), rebooted two months ago because I had to move it from one room to another... I saw some Linux-self-compiled boxes - and few of them were as stable as a distribution with _tested_ software on them.
Niall (feeling a bit disappointed/confused)
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