[mythtv-users] Re: Jarod's Fedora install - driver & web questions

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Dec 20, 2003, at 02:18, Ian Forde wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 01:16, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>> And/or use the spec file from the src.rpm with your own tarball
>> (possibly of a newer version, a patched version, etc.), edit the spec
>> file (pretty much all your build options go in there) to your liking
>> and have fully customized version in rpm form after building as Ian
>> said. :)
>
> Heh.  It gets better.  If you replace the tarball with a newer version
> that fix the vulnerabilities covered by the RedHat patches, make sure
> that you remove the RedHat patches in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD before
> running the rpmbuild command.  That's how you can get things like 
> Apache
> 2.0.48 to install on RH9, for example...

What he said. Yeah, I forgot to mention that Red Hat patches the living 
heck out of things with all sorts of back-ports (and no, that isn't a 
bad thing, they give you stability *and* the latest security 
patches)...

>> I have to go get re-certified before too long here... I got mine back
>> when 7.3 was current... Good thing I've got some machines running 
>> RHEL3
>> to play with...
>
> Trying not to think about that.  I got mine when 7.1 was current.  I'm
> not looking forward to shelling out $750 for that exam again... ;)

Sheesh, was it that much?!? I did the full week-long deal that was like 
$2500, but I thought the exam was only like $300 of it. :-\

> 	-I
>
> P.S. - On the other hand, I must admit that the exam was fun!

Very true. :)

(I felt bad for the people who already knew they couldn't pass after 
section 1... ;)

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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