Building from source vs RPMs

From: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Building from source vs RPMs
Date: 2009-07-27 23:53:19
Message-ID: 89882242-A9D2-45DF-ADE2-E7B6B00BFDC2@thebuild.com
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I'm moving from a long time in BSD-land to using Linux. I've always
been in the habit of building PostgreSQL from the source tarballs. On
Linux, is there an advantage either way to using the RPMs as opposed
to building from source? Thanks!
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