Rpmbuild vs .rpm for Centos
 

I have a dilemma here to install monit on centos 6.4. I have enable epel repo but it install only the version 5.1.1 but there are some feature I need in 5.3. I got the .rpm list here http://pkgs.repoforge.org/monit/ or should I do this rpmbuild -tb monit-5.6.tar.gz . I am worried of the stability.

If the Monit tar ball doesn't contain one I'd take the original .spec file and make it build the new RPM package. Then there's a separate task, testing it on a staging machine before moving it to production.

Dear Unspawn,
If I want to use for production machine what is the best advice should I just go with the .rpm file and yum install it ?

EPEL is supposed to be one of the more trustworthy repos so if you want stability you should use it. What's the feature you need BTW?

Dear Unspawn,
I need this extra feature http://mmonit.com/monit/documentatio...status_testing. The epel gives me monit 5.1.1 but this feature only available in 5.3 and above. So what is your best suggestion here.

Dear unSpawn,
Thank for the link. For this sort of manual installation I just use yum install and if there is any new version should I just remove the old first or just install on top of the old one ?

Install the repo file first, then upgrade the package.

Dear Unspawn,
I did not install now the repo file and directly install it via the .rpm file. Any way the link is missing the file and I took it via here http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...&system=&arch=.