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[nutballs]

not from a repo.

How do you upgrade an app like Mysql or PHP for example, from source.

Do you just go through the same original steps? configure, make, make install? or is there other stuff?

just curious for the future.

[perkiset]

That's what I do ... some might YUM it or use the RedHat Package Manager... I create a new directory in my /usr/local/installs dir that is the new version source... then make and install just as usual. Then, I can rather quickly go back to exactly where I was when it fubars me.

[nutballs]

thats what I figured. It seems to me though that after a few upgrades you start to end up with a lot of potential loose ends lying around?

[perkiset]

Yes... but after I'm pretty satisfied with the current version, I'll
tar -czvf ../tarballname.tar.gz *

... which will make a tarball of everything as it was in the install directory and then move it to /usr/local/installs/tarballs for safe keeping.