Hi again friendly DA people!
I'm increasingly interested in DA, especially if IMAP arrives soon. But could someone confirm that the following list of package versions (from the Installation Guide) installed by DA is up to date?
Apache 1.3.28
FrontPage 5.0.2.2510
PHP 4.3.0
phpMyAdmin-2.5.0
MySQL 4.0.14
Exim 3.36
Majordomo 1.94.5
vm-pop3d 1.1.6
Proftpd 1.2.8
Assuming this is an accurate list, some questions:
I'm increasingly interested in DA, especially if IMAP arrives soon. But could someone confirm that the following list of package versions (from the Installation Guide) installed by DA is up to date?
Apache 1.3.28
FrontPage 5.0.2.2510
PHP 4.3.0
phpMyAdmin-2.5.0
MySQL 4.0.14
Exim 3.36
Majordomo 1.94.5
vm-pop3d 1.1.6
Proftpd 1.2.8
Assuming this is an accurate list, some questions:
- When is Apache 2 coming?
- Why is the PHP release 6+ months old?
- Why Majordomo not Mailman? (Or: is it easy to integrate Mailman with DA?)
- When will Exim be upgraded? According to the exim site, v. 3 is now obsolete & "not being actively maintained". (I'm a long time Postfix user so I'm used to never needing to upgrade the SMTP server, but running a version considered obsolete worries me.)
- When will MySQL 4.0.15 come? Looks like a straightforward bugfix release with a number of security fixes so not a difficult upgrade. But I do realise it's only been released for a month, fair enough...
- How about phpMyAdmin - 2.5.0 is just over 5 months old now.
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(I realise you can never keep right up to date with this software, particularly if the latest releases are unstable, but all the old releases mentioned above have well-tested newer releases, generally bugfix releases.)
I'd be happy if I could upgrade these manually myself, but it seems like most control panels want to control everything and are likely to break if you upgrade underneath them. Has anyone upgraded the above software? Any problems?
I don't mean to be annoying, I understand the developers are going full tilt, but I don't want to get stuck with an outdated or inflexible control panel. I'd be happy just to know that there's no problem upgrading these packages yourself assuming you understand Linux.
Cheers!
Chuck