Configuring additional packages

John Dangler jdangler at atlantic.net
Thu Jul 22 02:34:03 UTC 2004


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On Behalf Of Scot L. Harris
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:23 PM
To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
Subject: Re: Configuring additional packages

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:45, John Dangler wrote:
>> I have had to download sources for httpd, php, etc for my existing FC2
>> installation (originally installed from .iso).  I noticed that the
>> executable for httpd is currently installed in /usr/sbin, and the modules
>> are currently installed in /usr/lib/httpd.  Is it safe to configure httpd
to
>> be installed in the same paths as the original, or is it more advisable
to
>> begin using /usr/local for these (and other added packages) and clean up
the
>> existing entries afterward?
> 
>> Thanks for the reply.
> 
>> JD
> 
> 

>I install http, php, postgresql etc in the /usr/local directories and
>have removed the rpms for those.  I actually removed the rpms of those
>packages prior to final installation of the tar balls.

>I want to go back and see if checkinstall can be used to generate RPMs
>for those packages.  If possible I would then use those rpms to install
>the packages on other systems.  

What is checkinstall?  I can't find that anywhere on my system. (no entry
for man, or info either).

-- 
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com

"No, `Eureka' is Greek for `This bath is too hot.'"
		-- Dr. Who 


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