[xymon] Fresh server install on RHEL5: source or yum repo?

[Xymon User in Richmond]

On Tue, July 27, 2010 11:58, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
> Some of the reasons to use packages are consistency with policies. For
> example, most distributions disallow packages from owning any files below
>  /home, and require that operation of the software not require /usr to be
>  writable at all times, and various other requirements. As such, logs
> cannot actually reside under the same parent directory as binaries. The
> packages provide symlinks to the real locations, so things look the same
> taking into account the difference in BBHOME.
>
>> If the packages don't get maintained going forward, I'd end up having
>> to migrate to source-based, and that would involve hand-tweaking the
>> rpm-based locations.
>
> Well, once I have more than one installation of software, I package it
> myself anyway, as maintaining a package becomes less work at about the
> 3rd installation. If I no longer maintain packages (although I do), that
> *really* doesn't mean that you would need to switch, you should consider
> rebuilding the SRPM ...
>

Good advice.  Thanks for elaborating.  BTW, re
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/devmon/index.php?title=InstallRHELorCentOS,
yum reports "No package xymon.x86_64 available" when the "without
yum-basearch-only" instructions are followed.