MESSAGE
| DATE | 2002-08-16 |
| FROM | From: "j. ercole"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] RPM HELL
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*bsd? Ports? I think you might be ready for the great crossing over.
j.
Thus spake Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
>
> I almost always install all apache stuff by hand, but decided to go with the Redhat RPM
> systems for our 2 year old 6.2 VA Server.
>
> So I decided, OK, I'm impressed enough with PHPGROUPWARE to give it a try.
>
> Auch.
>
>
> RPM's SUCK RPM's SUCK RPM's SUCK, and so does the debian shit.
>
> First, I discovered that Postreg needs to be at least version 7 for
> PHPGROUPWARE. Guess what, no 6.2 pgsql 7 version for Redhat 6.2.
>
> So I uninstall postgres and instead install by hand postgres 7. whatever.
>
> PHPgroupware STILL doesn't work. Seems to not want to connect to the database...
>
> Fooey
>
>
> PHP is not built with database support. grrr
>
> So now I search the web and find a fix for the RPM's source file.
>
> IT DOESN'T freaken compile. It's missing a half dozen RPM packages (which I thnk it isn't)
> and one of them is POSTGRES.
>
> Damn
>
> So now I need to compile PHP by hand and find out the locations for the ldap librairies, postress
> libraies and where everything for apache, which is all over the damn hard drive.
>
> I mean, I could just as well build the whole damn system again by hand. WHo needs Red Hat.
>
> This is the kind of thing that makes Redhat want to make me puke.
>
>
> I have to walk accross the har drive now and figure out where half a dozen subsystems are
> built.
>
>
> Ruben
>
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