[Cialug] CentOS Yum error

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com> wrote:
>   
>>> This is why you should always work within the paradigm of the system
>>> you're on.  If you hack around it, you find out pretty quickly that
>>> there are reasons why things are set up the way they are.
>>>       
>> I know package managers make it easy to install things, particularly if you
>> don't have a full toolchain on all your systems. And they're a great way to
>> un-install things. But I'm sticking with my makefiles.
>>     
>
> Almost all of my non hardware/network related downtime can be related
> to this type of stuff.
>
> 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. Sometimes its a pain because
> you have to build 5 package dependencies for the one you want, but in
> the long run that time is an investment and you'll get it back with
> interest when problems happen. And even if you don't, it's like a
> backup - hopefully you don't need it, but if you do, you'll be glad
> you spent the time.
>
> Plus, once you start installing via `make install` you can no longer
> trust the vendor's security updates not to break your system. That
> leaves you vulnerable.
>
>   
Part of this has to do with your Distro of choice... Seems like with 
some, like RHEL, there are only like a dozen packages in the repository 
(gross exaggeration), so any time you want to do something outside what 
RH has available, you either have to add more repositories, or go one of 
the other routes. One example - there's no php-mssql package for RHEL. 
Nobody would ever need to connect to a MS-SQL server in an enterprise 
environment, right?

That's one of the things I really like about Mandriva... between the 
main, contrib, and plf sources, I can get most all of the packages I need.

-dc