Re: [squid-users] RPM Packages

Good answer Simon,

I'll add to that and say that, generally, if you are prepared to run a
DEVEL Squid then you probably also have the knowledge needed to build
your own RPM. When I build DEVEL RPMS (and I do sometimes do so in my
test environment, but you won't see them publicly posted because I don't
want the questions they would certainly generate) it takes about 15
minutes to create new config and make patches, and get a new RPM build
of DEVEL. If you aren't ready for that kind of thing, then running a
DEVEL Squid is probably not in your best interest anyway. I've posted
my SRPMs in addition to the binaries on my site. You're welcome to
start from there.

That said, installation of DEVEL from source tarball is thoroughly simple...

Simon White wrote:
> 29-Apr-02 at 08:38, Eric Daras (eric.daras@dafriser.dyndns.org) wrote :
>
>>Bonjour,
>>
>> Where can I get RPM Squid 2.5 DEVEL package for RedHat Linux ?
>
>
> Usually only STABLE versions are ever released as RPMs. If you want
> development versions, you probably ought to be compiling from source
> anyway, since an RPM should always be a stable implementation of a thing,
> it is almost against the principles of RPM to release "development" RPMs.
>
> If you need a feature of the development package, you will have to wait
> until the developers are happy with functionality before it will become
> STABLE, and then some more until it is released as an RPM.
>
> If you want to be cutting-edge, then you have to use tar.gz or CVS. The
> whole RPM philosophy is made for stable versions which can be massively
> deployed across a network.

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