[Cialug] CentOS Yum error

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
> It will pay off in spades if you bite the bullet and get comfortable
> with your package manager's build capability (i.e. rpmbuild) for
> creating the packages you want and need.

Packaging software also pays off in repeatability.  Manually compiling
software is fine for one or two systems, but for building multiple
systems that need near-identical configurations that you can trust to
be correct packaging is the way to go.  There's nothing like wasting a
few hours getting some software to work only to realize that some
library got built without feature X because you didn't install library
Y's headers in the right location.

Jeff