Re: dist-upgrade on production system

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Author: Matt Alexander
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: dist-upgrade on production system
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Jonathan Furrer wrote:

> I build things by hand, that way I know where they go, exactly what
> libraries they were compiled with and I can update things before someone
> else releases a package for it. That way when I hear that Openssl has
> another vulnerability, I know whether or not my mysql build is affected
> by it, etc..Those things are very important to me on a production system.
>
> I'm not knocking people who use packages on a production system, just
> providing my veiw on it.


That sounds fine for very small sites, but I don't think it scales well...



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