Re: make vs rpm vs srpm vs yum : questions about package management in Linux.

Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:bar3h5x82s.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

This is mostly a matter of taste. What you should not do is configure
&& make && make install when installing will overwrite software
managed by rpm or some other package manager. But if you do compile
yourself, and install to /usr/local (which is the whole purpose for
/usr/local), you shouldn't have a problem.

Thanks Keith! So, will yum / rpm *never* (or almost never) install software
to the /usr/local/ folder? Just making sure I understand the install-dir.
convention correctly? Is the /usr/local/ meant only for the user? What
places (/bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin come to mind) does yum / rpm prefer to
install stuff in and again is there a convention?

I feel comfortable doing a from source install since the EXEC_PREFIX,
LIB_PREFIX etc. allow me to know where the files are getting installed to.
But frequently I do a 'yum install' and end up with no idea of where it
actually added the files to!


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Rahul
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