Re: Which distro?

I demand that Jerry Stuckle may or may not have written...

Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Jerry Stuckle may or may not have written...
John Hasler wrote:
[snip]
Exim does not require Mysql.
My Exim installation does - and therein lies the problem. The Exim which
is supplied with Debian replaces mine on an upgrade, and all email stops
working.
Then build your own *packaged* versions (you should add an entry to
debian/changelog, modifying the version number by adding something like
"+local1"), install them (use dpkg) & mark them as "held" (aptitude
allows this).
[snip]

Which is a heck of a lot more work than the customer is willing to pay for.
And every time we need to change something, we need to create a new build.

Well, yes. There's no change there...

As it is, I have build scripts for what I need - and they work fine. For
instance, I just had to add one option into the PHP build. It was just a
matter of adding one line to the script and rebuild PHP.

Marking as held still applies.

They are not going to pay to completely redo the package system for their
need.

From where did you get this "completely redo the package system"?

Which is why I need a package-less distro.

You do? ISTM that you've decided on an answer and are now trying to justify
it...

I think that you'd be better off using the packaging system to help you,
rather than using it for most things but working against it for specific
packages (as you appear to be doing at present). You'll easily be able to see
which packages would be upgraded if they weren't held at their current
versions, and therefore which packages need to be rebuilt.

You may find that setting up your own repository will help, particularly if
you have to upgrade many installations; you can configure them to prefer to
pull packages from your repository, even if newer official versions are
available.

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