Matt: Thanks for the advice and I consider it good advice:) It does make more sense to do this as we will be building many servers. One of my con's on the source install row is no consistency if we compile the source on each machine.
-Scott On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would stick with the RPM's for enterprise class servers needing anything > near 24/7. While I am not overly confident in Mandrake's update RPM's > (almost toasted my machine when they forgetting to link stuff in the /boot > dir on a kernel update), this still is the best way to go. The main > reasons include: > Consistency among multiple servers-makes them all work alike and manage > alike > Their team, while imperfect, has a lot more experience building RPM's than > you. > Security updates, when made available would otherwise require you to grab > source and recompile. They've already done that. > Management of multiple big-time servers is made much more feasible with > consistency. The security updates are almost enough on their own.
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