I dont really understand where you are coming from, its
easy enough for the script to recompile its external
dependancies on install. This way I don't really care what
core version of linux or solaris or BSD is installed on
each platform since we do not control them all.
Precisely _because_ they are not well managed is why its
important for our environment to build itself cleanly. No,
not the core os etc but netpbm, imagemagick, ripmime and
other tools get rebuilt on a 'major' config.
I guess in your book we suck either way eh? Life goes on
:)
John
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:02:20 -0800 (PST)
Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 siberian@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I don't believe in transfering _any_ binaries around,
every binary recompiles on its new platform at install
time. All modules, apache, external software etc. This
eliminates those pesky little problems that pop up when
you start pushing binaries.
Uhmn, if your systems are well managed you don't get any
of those
"pesky little problems". Do you recompile the base
system on each
server too?
In my experience, then as soon as you have more than a
few handfuls
of servers you get more trouble trying to coordinate
recompiling
binaries than doing it once and distributing them (in
tarballs,
rpms, or with your revisioning system).
- ask
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