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In aus.computers.linux, on 17 Jul 2008 00:57:46 GMT
Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@gmail.com> wrote:
>  In aus.computers.linux on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:10:29 +1000
>  Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> wrote:
> > apt-get install build-essential wasn't enough?
> 
>  I suppose I could have investigated packaging, but then if I wanted
>  that I'd have gone Debian not Ubuntu,.
> 
> > We build our own meta packages at work that allow you to install
> > everything a class of server needs with a single package (which
> > pulls in things like the "base" package, specific machine packages,
> > etc)
> 
>  Couldn't be arsed for a desktop machine.  I've got all that at work
>  for the RH boxen.  Satellite server, custom packages, custom install.
>  For a few hundred machines, it is worth it.

I don't admin quite that many, but upgrading from Redhat 7.3 to
Debian was a major niceness.  Mainly because I already vaguely knew FAI
and I had lots of Debian experience.

I wouldn't (ok, ok, I flirted with the idea) run Ubuntu on the server
quite so readily.  I'm happy using upstream Debian there.  More
developers and less half-finished integration work that just makes
things less stable.
 
> > Along with an apt repository, it's pretty trivial.  I suspect yum
> > can do similar things as well now, but Debian had this back in 2000
> > while Redhat didn't.  One of the reasons I switched.
> 
>  Yes, took RPM a while to catch up.  

I admit I haven't checked it for a while, though I was rather horrified
when I discovered what patching a Solaris 10 machine involves.  What,
you want me to register on your site just to access security updates?
Ho hum indeed.  We don't let our Solaris box at the real internet
because we don't know it well enough to know if we're up-to-date.

Bron.