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Unless you use relatively unpopular software, or you want updates the same day a new version comes out, chances are that someone has probably already done the w
by jamesgeck0 15y ago
Unless you use relatively unpopular software, or you want updates the same day a new version comes out, chances are that someone has probably already done the work for you.
- debacle 15y agoMaybe for debian, but when I tried updating PHP for PHP5.3 it was impossible to find a CentOS package, even a year after PHP5.3 was out. We had to roll our own, which was fine, but the average end user (or the programmer wearing the sysadmin hat) doesn't have the capability to do that.
- tedsuo 15y agoIf your distro can't (or won't) keep up with a mainstream package like php, and you need it to, maybe it's time to switch? Which is easy, because all of your software will run on whatever flavor you switch to. The ability to easily jump ship like that is what makes it "not fragmented."
- jamesgeck0 15y agoOh, yeah. I forgot about CentOS. Distributions targeted at enterprise are harder; I use a third party repo for Asterisk and FreePBX, but I think I did have to compile a few dependencies.