On Thursday 18 March 2004 08:52, Kurt Yoder wrote: >Stefan G. Weichinger said: > ><snipped> > >> By compiling your own binaries you get the freedom to choose YOUR >> own setup, to set YOUR firewall-settings, to assure that YOUR >> version of AMANDA does exactly the job you want it to. >> >> And it stays YOUR setup with each new release of AMANDA. >> >> All this with a small shell-script. >> >> I think this is worth the effort of figuring out the >> configure-options. > >I would agree that compiling is pretty easy. You can even recompile > included Linux distribution packages if you get the source package > and do a few simple steps. > >However, there are still big advantages to using "stock" packages. > For instance, I have an internet-accessible Debian machine that > checks for security updates every hour and automatically installs > any that it finds. If I have amanda installed using the "stock" > Debian package, any vulnerabilities in amanda that get patched by > the Debian maintainer will automatically be installed. > >If I do my own package, this update needs to wait until I am around > to pay attention to it, which might take a week if I am away on > vacation. I suppose there may be a way to also recompile/source > install Debian packages when upstream security updates become > available, but I haven't figured it out yet.
I'd counter that argument by asking how many security fixes have been applied to amanda in the last 3 years. Far fewer I'd wager, than the actual number of updated releases in that same time frame. Read the ChangeLog if in doubt. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
