Do I need to “Build” all items in CustomBuild if no updates are available?

[iPwsite]

Hi everyone,

I’m using DirectAdmin → CustomBuild and noticed there are two main sections:

1. Updates – “Check and update existing software components.”
2. Build – “Install or rebuild new software components.”

Currently, under Updates, it says no software to update.
Under Build → Build Software, I see a list like this:

• Apache 2.4.65
• bind
• composer 2.8.12
• CSF
• Dovecot 2.4.1-4
• Exim 4.98.2
• MariaDB 10.6.23
• PHP 8.3.26
• Pure-FTPd 1.0.52
• redis 8.2.1
• …and more

My question:
Do I need to press “Build” for each item individually even if no updates are available under Updates?

From what I understand:

• Updates only checks for newer versions.
• Build is used to install or rebuild software.

So if everything is already up-to-date, is it safe to skip building items individually, or should I “Build all” just to ensure everything is compiled/rebuilt?

Thanks in advance for guidance!

 

[DrWizzle]

No. When you install Directadmin, you set up the options for your server, and then go across and "Update all" for the first time. This will build everything you need for your required system over and above the base install that custombuild first performs on your server.

Periodically, updates will become available and as they appear, you then click "Update" to update those to latest packages/versions.

The build section is there for 2 reasons as I see it. 1st is to build extra packages that you may need that haven't been picked up with the options.conf and 2nd is to rebuild packages if you want to revert to "factory settings". Nice if you've made a mistake configuring something and need to revert to base settings again.

Case in point, not sure if this has been fixed but when I setup servers in last version, rspamd wouldn't auto install so I would have to build that separately.

Here's my build server that's updated.

Here's a DNS server i'm just updating today due to latest release