From: Rodger Donaldson <rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: linux standard layout
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:24:10 +1300
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Ben Kim <bkim@tamu.edu> wrote:
>> I have someone who opposes the use of standard rpms (even yums) for this
>> reason. I thought I'd check out how it is received professionally.
>
> Sounds like a religious argument. I mostly used packages, unless I
> can't. (i.e. two different versions on RH at the same time)
Agreed. This is particularly the case once one starts thinking about
security updates and so on - my experience is that hand-rolling from
source tends to result in patching lagging far behind after a while.
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