Re: Example of installing a package from source

[Michael Hale <mikehale@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Mike Bailey<mike@bailey.net.au> wrote:
> Can anyone point me at an example of how to download/compile/install a
> package from source?

Try the ruby_enterprise cookbook from Sean Cribbs:

http://github.com/seancribbs/cookbooks/blob/d0e29248533e58365201ed2cd63a2cd78b78f557/ruby_enterprise/recipes/default.rb

>
> I often do this when a version supplied by a distro doesn't include
> functionality I want. I generally only need it for faster moving
> projects but back in 2006 I was compiling apache to take advantage of
> mod_proxy_balancer that wasn't available in dapper.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mike
>