Re: building from source advice

From: Rob Weir (rweir_at_ertius.org)
Date: 02/06/04

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    On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +0000, cyril said
    > Hi
    >
    > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on
    > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be
    > aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian
    > environment.

    If you build things from source, dpkg won't be aware of them, therefore
    apt will try to install them if something depends on them.

    > For example I usually choose to build php / apache from source
    > on my servers.

    Why? The Debian versions of apache and php include all known security
    fixes, and pretty much all available modules. 

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