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

[Larry Vaden]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Suresh Govindachar
<sgovindachar at yahoo.com> 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"

We were recently discussing similar matters on a clone's mailing list
and we mentioned using exclude to prevent some yum/rpm issues when
compiling from source in order to run current edition bind.

John Stanley aka john.stanley at elslc.com mentioned a preferable
technique known as "Ghost Package." in private email:

<quote>
BTW If you were to find and build entirely of ./configure make make
install you can create a "Ghost Package" of it with empty contents with
only the RPM Header Info needed to keep the database happy.  As long as
the libs are in the correct path.
</quote>

So, if John's not on this list, you might email him for more details.

regards/vaden at texoma.net