Installing from RPM, was: Another call for improvements

[Richard Siddall]

Chris Hammond wrote:
> Whenever I do an update, I download the tar.gz and pull out just the
> mailscanner
> rpm and install that.  I do not install everything.  Most of the perl
> modules are either
> from the base os or Dag.  I think two of them I rebuild from src.rpm
> that Julian provides
> and install them.  I do not install the whole kit and kaboodle.
> 
> Chris
>  

Whenever I do an update, I run Julian's RPM installer on a lab machine,
do a few cursory tests, then copy all the RPMs generated by the
installer across to the live machine and do an "rpm -Uvh *.rpm".

If we had yum or apt on the live machine, I'd just set up a repository
and update from that.

I update the configuration files by hand.  We haven't automated that yet.

Regards,

	Richard Siddall