On Sun, 21 Apr 2013, Erik Steffl wrote:
what's a preferred way to get v7 (in ubuntu)? I see that there are:
- http://www.rsyslog.com/ubuntu-repository/ (says it's experimental)
- https://launchpad.net/~tmortensen/+archive/rsyslogv7
- https://launchpad.net/~gchinis/+archive/rsyslog7 (looks like subset of
the previous one but slightly different versions)
- just download/compile?
It depends on what you are wanting to do.
If you are looking to use some of the latest and greatest features, write a new
module, or test bugfixes, download/compile is the best bet. You probably want to
work from the git source tree, this means you won't even be running releases,
you will be running the development snapshot.
If you are wanting something to run in production, then you may want to run
releases.
If the pre-generated binaries include all the features you want (and you don't
consider them too bloated by including all the things you don't use), then using
one of the repositories is probably the right thing to do.
as far as which repository to use, there things get interesting.
the rsyslog repository is 'experimental', but that's because they just contain
every release compiled and packaged for each distro. There isn't a lot of
testing of each release/distro set.
However, the PPAs are also experimental (they are not tested and blessed by
Ubuntu)
so it boils down to who do you trust to do the best job :-)
personally, I would probably use the rsyslog ones. They are probably going to be
used by more people and so will get better bug reports. I think the other two
are basically historical interest nowdays, they were created before rsyslog
started hosting distro repositories.
I'd be interested in hearing those folks describe what they see as the advantage
of their seperate PPAs over the rsyslog repository.
David Lang
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