Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA68632A2A for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:39:41 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 42411-09 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:39:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtp5.clear.net.nz (smtp5.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.68]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96FA6327A2 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:39:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.10.20] (203-97-214-3.cable.telstraclear.net [203.97.214.3]) by smtp5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0KZ0003PLA0EFO10@smtp5.clear.net.nz> for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:24:14 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:24:10 +1300 From: Rodger Donaldson Subject: Re: linux standard layout In-reply-to: To: Scott Marlowe Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Reply-to: rodger@diaspora.gen.nz Message-id: <4B9605AA.5070206@diaspora.gen.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.855 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=-0.745, BAYES_05=-1.11 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201003/62 X-Sequence-Number: 33861 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Ben Kim 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.