On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Brendon Hoch wrote:
This does bring up an interesting concept. With more Linux distributions
moving to yum for keeping current, wouldn't it be great if LDM (or other
Unidata software) could be installed or updated via a Unidata yum repository?
I'm not speaking for UNIDATA here, and I'm not meaning to insult anyone by
what I say, but...
There are several major flavors of Linux they'd have to maintain (Fedora,
CentOS/RHEL, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Debian...well, check out Distrowatch.com
for the complete list), which would make UNIDATA have to do an RPM for
almost every one. And since it is easy to compile, and with so many
variations on machines...I think it's just better for UNIDATA to keep
RPM's (or binaries) off of LDM. This is one piece of software that is
worth learning rather than just doing an "rpm -ivh ldm-6.7.0.rpm"...and it
doesn't take long to do.
Did I say it would cost UNIDATA a boatload of time to put the RPM's for
each distro together? ;-)
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