Which updates are official?

artichoke

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I see that in http://files.directadmin.com/services/ and subdirectories thereof there are a large number of updated packages provided by the DirectAdmin developers. But I could find no README files within that URL that give us any update instructions. Instead, there are a variety of update instructions posted in various places in these forums by various people, almost always followed by postings from others complaining that the instructions did not work on some platform.

How official are the update packages within http://files.directadmin.com/services/ ? Should I assume that they are unsupported, i.e., "as is" and not to be used on production machines? Or should I asusme that they really are official and supported? If they really are official and supported, then which of the many update instructions to be found posted in these forums by various people should be considered official or authoritative?

While I am asking, there is something else that is not entirely clear. When I access the DirectAdmin admin menu to do an update of DirectAdmin, can I expect that all security issues in any of the packages originally installed during the DirectAdmin install will be taken care of by the update? Or should I go through all the package one by one and examine each for any unfixed security issues and then pull any needed update from http://files.directadmin.com/services/ manually?

I hope the DirectAdmin developers can clarify.

Rahul
 
I'll ask DA staff to look at this post. In the meantime, all files on the files.directadmin.com were put there by DirectAdmin staff.

The ones that are official (included in the DA installation, are the ones in the directory for your OS Distribution.

Updating DirectAdmin does exactly what it says; it updates DirectAdmin. It doesn't update any other software at all, not even core software. DA is not an appliance, it's a hosting administration system for server administrators. You're responsible for keeping your server and packages updated. There are lots of posts on these forums to help you, or you can always hire a server administration company to administer your server for you (hint: see my sig :) but we're not the only server administration company posting here.

Or if you're renting a server it may come with full service, or you may be able to buy it as an optionfrom your system provider.

Jeff
 
The files on our files server are the files that you should be using to update your services. This is because (for the most part) the services are compiled in a certain way, or configure in a certain way such that a stock rpm from somewhere else wouldn't work on a DA machine. Mysql is the exception as it's 100% stock and can be downloaded from dev.mysql.com just as easily.

Update instructions for rpms are simply:
Code:
rpm -Uvh file.i386.rpm
If people are trying to compile a source rpm (src.rpm), they have to ensure they have all the required development packages, something we don't install with a DA install, hence there are a few people who get errors.

John
 
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