On 15 Mar 2002 11:34:32 -0600
Travis Owens
I am wondering, does anyone know:
1.) If there is such a thing? 2.) What it would be?
As to how SuSE installs packages from the source for the './configure' script?
What I mean is: is there a standard set of rules that they use when running the configure script to install all the pieces of software in the various locations on the file-system?
<example> When installing the latest version of apache, the configure script is setup for '/usr/local/' then it creates the directory of the package it's going to install - 'apache'... (this causes all kinds of problems with the SuSE init-scripts)
--But when you install SuSE's RPM of Apache, it has all the binaries in '/usr/sbin/' and the 'conf' file is in '/etc/httpd'... (this one works, because the init-script is setup, but this package might not have everything you want) </example>
If you want to comply with suse's method, you probably should use their "source rpms" for each package. It comes with the configuration files usually set. However, their is nothing from stopping you from installing the source from apache in their default directories. You can have 2 different versions of apache running. You just have to read the docs and remember which config file goes with which httpd daemon. This is true of almost all packages. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}