ubuntu 11 / Debian 7 Support

[nservices]

Hi,
there is any estimate date for ubuntu11 / Debian7 Support in DirectAdmin?

Best Regards,
Star Network.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Debian 7 does not exist yet.
Once it does, then we start coding with it.
We don't test/code on beta OS's.

Keep an eye on this:
http://www.debian.org/releases/

The next release of Debian is codenamed wheezy — no release date has been set

Once Debian 7 is released as "stable", then we can start.

Edit: Looks like it might be 2013:
http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110726b

John

 

[nobaloney]

They seem to have an interesting design goal. Perhaps great for developers, perhaps a security nightmare for single-purpose servers. It all depends on how they implement it.

@nservices:

I'm not sure what you mean by Ubuntu 11. Do you mean either of the 2011 releases? Personally I'd skip directly to 12.04, out already, and a Long Term Support release.

However, note that DirectAdmin doesn't support Ubuntu separately, but rather, it works on the Debian install. Since Ubuntu builds from Debian's not-yet-stable releases (do they still do that?) Ubuntu could be a bit long in the tooth by the time it gets support.

Question for Ubuntu users: I've seen a lot of design decisions recently showing that Ubuntu is going it's own way on the Desktop (I'm switching back to Kubuntu this week); are they doing the same on the server edition?

Jeff

 

[piotrv]

Yes, I did something stupid.
I upgraded my server to the new stable release, i.e. the Debian 7 distribution with the new 3.2 kernel

Reversing to Debian 6 is not an option.
Now not only DA is not working any more , but I also experience difficulties with pure ftp, dovecot and exim, I guess because of the way the custom build script installed the applications instead of using the Debian repo

I wonder if DirectAdmin could give us a timeframe when to expect a Debian 7 compatible build script and a DA which is not using static linked libs anymore for compiling.

If the timeframe is a year, I would have no other option than to install a new server from scratch with Debian 6 and move all data from the old server.
This would be my last resort. I rather wait for a DA upgrade if we can expect something withinh the next coming month....

 

[piotrv]

I solved my issues after upgrading to Debian 7 :

http://forum.directadmin.com/showthread.php?t=46343&p=237960#post237960

 

[Advinux]

Build correct for debian 7.1

Hello,

i found a error on the build file, its for libpcap package, he don't look in the good place, so i correct it on line 7643 :

-- if [ ! -e /lib/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /lib64/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so ]; then

++ if [ ! -e /lib/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /lib64/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so ]; then

And after everything ok.

I will let you know all feedbacks about debian 7 and patches i do.

Cardialy.

 

[Advinux]

Error

Sorry was a error post

Hello,

i found a error on the build file, its for libpcap package, he don't look in the good place, so i correct it on line 7643 :

-- if [ ! -e /lib/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /lib64/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so ]; then

++ if [ ! -e /lib/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /lib64/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so ] && [ ! -e /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so ]; then

And after everything ok.

I will let you know all feedbacks about debian 7 and patches i do.

Cardialy.

 

[kanary]

Is it already recommended to upgrade from Debian 6.0 64-bit to 7.1 ?

if so how can i do this save (production vps)?