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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/26/2011 05:05 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"

Short answer to all 3: No.

For yum (more precisely rpm and its databases underneath) to know about 
manually build and installed packages you'd have to package these into 
rpms.

Ralf