----- Original Message ----- > From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 9:09 PM > Subject: Re: RedHat and mod_jk > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thad, > > On 7/15/2011 9:59 PM, Thad Humphries wrote: >> If you rely on RedHat, Novell, OpenSuSE, Unbuntu, etc. you can wait >> for some things until you are old and gray. > > Sing it. We're stuck on MySQL 5.0 in production because of this very > fact. Sometimes I pine for the days of Gentoo. Only sometimes. > >> Worse is to have some update that you haven't screened stomp on >> something you need. > > Most package managers have provisions for holding a package (or the > whole repo) at a certain level. > > Actually, the really nice thing about Debian, for instance, is that > their releases are all stable (assuming you don't follow Sid like an > idiot): you should never get stomped with anything. The bad news is that > you have to wait for a major upgrade in order to get that next version > of whatever - like MySQL 5.1 :( > > - -chris
Yep. I think if you have critical requirements (technical, security, business) that aren't being met by your distribution's package release you have to roll your own. Manage it just like any other software release. The issues are then mostly management (culpability and support). How those issues are dealt with becomes a matter of business culture. I've been successful in the past in getting permission to build critical components locally. I've also been in environments where this was strictly forbidden, even at the expense of not meeting business requirements and/or exposing the infrastructure to known security risks. Meeting requirements is preferred (in my book). It also appears that more and more admins are uncomfortable with building, installing, and then managing systems with locally installed software. This goes back to the challenge that the original poster had. Why an admin would balk at learning how to do this is another question . . . Friday night ramblings are worth less than two cents . . . ;-) /mde/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
