[rt-users] I am confused

[Walt Reed]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:49:36AM -0800, John Schubert said:
> I hope you get more responses than I did, when I asked
> similar questions about RH 8.0.
> 
> I spent 2 or 3 weeks trying to make RH 8 regress to
> mod_perl1 and Apache1.  I've been a Sun sys admin for 5
> years or so, and have a good understanding of installing
> packages and configuring Unix boxes.  
> 
> However, with RedHat 8, it was not as simple as just
> removing Apache and mod_perl and then compiling from new
> source.  It should be, but it wasn't.

Your right, it SHOULD be, but isn't.

Basically what I did on RH8 is dump the redhat binaries for just about
everything (apache, mod_perl, perl, mysql) and install from source in
/usr/local. I did cheat a little and install mysql from the RPM's
provided at mysql.com (the mysql version with rh8 is too old.)

I tend to NOT use vendor supplied binaries for a lot of my core
software. Besides being able to compile exactly the versions / options I
want, I also have the ability to take MY code and upgrade the OS under
and have a reasonable expectation that things will still work (with a
recompile as a possibility. It may help to compile things statically if
this is your goal.)