Yum/RPM install

[Peter Nitschke]

Which is why I like the concept of doing it all with RPMs.

Most are available on the major repo sites, the handful that aren't I have
let Julian's script create, then made a local repo for them so I can do
repeat installs simply and quickly to other PC's.

I realise this is OS specific, but most of us with multiple servers to
manage have probably standardised on a particular OS, in my case Centos 5.

The MS install script pretty much creates then installs everything as
RPM's, and the recent SA/Clam install script recommends using clam RPM's,
so I figure that going the last step to all RPM's makes good sense.

Julians scripts do a few tweak, eg to SA v3xx.pre files which is easy
enough to duplicate, but would I be missing anything else?

My thoughts are towards lower manual maintenance by being able to do future
upgrades all by RPM, and by being able to create servers with a known
predictable setup which doesn't tend to happen if you configure them all
individually.

Peter


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On 13/08/2007 at 5:33 PM Gareth wrote:

>Managing perl modules would be a real pain as you would practically have
>to
>install them as separate RPM's aswell. RPM has its own versioning and
>upgrade system which perl also has. Trying to mix them both at the same
>time
>can cause lots of issues.
>
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>> Nitschke
>> Sent: 13 August 2007 17:22
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>> Subject: Yum/RPM install
>>
>>
>> There have been a few threads on the issue of making more use of
>> yum and or
>> RPM's to install MailScanner and SA/Clam-av, but none of them seem to
>have
>> come to any real conclusion.
>>
>> Is there any real disadvantage to doing it all with RPM's rather than
>> having all the modules compiled with each install or upgrade?
>>
>> Peter
>>
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