Yum's database and configure, ..., make install

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 02/26/2011 09:35 AM, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   On Fedora-14: 
>   
>   1) if I install things by "configure; make ; make test; make
>      install", will yum automatically know how the system has
>      changed?  If not, how does up update yum's database to 
>      reflect the changes?
>
>   2) Similar question for perl modules (perl Makefile.PL; make;
>      make test; make install).
>
>   3) Similar question for "make uninstall"

Yum is a dependency resolver that uses RPM to keep track of the software
installed or removed from your system.  If you build from source, yum
doesn't know about it and there isn't a workaround for that.

Rahul