On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:03:28 -0600 "Christopher D. Clausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing I was planning to do for HCoop and myself as well anyway, > > is setting an automated way that packages we compile manually are > > always automatically recompiled & patched when updates arrive. > > > > So for the first few times, mwolson could do it manually, then we'll > > improve the procedure. > > Having maintained some local package mods, let me warn you that this is > bad idea long term. Eventually whatever local patches are applied are > going to stop working and things are going to break. Of course, we are talking about a system that would either build the thing and keep quiet, or send you a notification that patching didn't succeed and manual inspection was in order. > > If you really need local mods, try to get the functionality into the > upstream version. (I realize this isn't likely to happen with apache > suexec, but other things are possible.) > > Also, please, PLEASE try and modify only the debain/rules file whenever > possible. There is no need to modify the apache source to change the > apache docroot for suexec. Its a parameter to configure and its in the > rules file. (I've made this change before I decided that is was better > to setup a local user account and run things out of a public_html > userdir.) > > <<CDC > > > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list > [email protected] > http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
