Getting rid of custom builds and using package mgt (in my case RPMs)

[empowering]

While the build system is nice in it's customization, it really is hard to then maintain and keep consistent among a high amount of servers/VPSes. We maintain over 25 DA installations and it's getting much harder maintain. If we had to do this for our base OS install we won't be able to do it.

Can we get DA to use either the stock rpm packages as a basis OR create their own rpms? Anything that can distribute binaries out instead of compiling for each server.

 

[nobaloney]

We manage a lot of servers, and we feel your pain.

The problem, however, is that the many hosting managing systems out there that use package make it close to impossible to make changes. DA is unique in giving you the ability to use any version of anything.

Jeff

 

[empowering]

Then we are going to have to look into creating our own RPMs for use with DA. We already do it for other files in DA so we'll just create custom RPMs for apache and such.

 

[flamegrill]

That's the easiest way to do. Build RPMs for each of the distros you use if you have many and ship updates off to the servers. You could build your own PRM or apt repository for this to keep things up to date for 100's of servers.

Paul