Re: tar.gz installation

[Bryan J Smith <bjs redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 15:57 -0400, Matt Rose wrote:  
> Do yourself a favour, and use this method.  If this is something
> you're going to want to install on more than one server, make an RPM
> out of it.  It's really not hard, and you'll save yourself so many
> headaches in the long run.

And submit your work to at least RPMForge, if it's a publicly available
tarball.  Also look there if someone already has one.

If it's just data, then there's little excuse not to use RPM to package
it, possibly leverage a configuration management system for recipes to
help manage it.


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