2008/9/5 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>
It is, alas, harder to create and update
custom-patched packages than
whipping together quickie patch && configure && make && make
install
scripts.
However packages are usually nicer to deploy, since the package manager
can deal with dependencies, and our customized packages don't need to
conflict confusingly with the ones in the base distro. New-server
installation is faster and easier; particularly for servers which don't
maintain state data -- like plain Apache/PHP boxes and Squid proxies --
installation and upgrades are a cinch.
Why don't you then build custom packages with your patches inside? apt-build
and friends (dh_make) should do the trick, at least for Ubuntu.
We do; that's why I described above the various pros and cons of it.
- -- brion
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