On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:51:12 -0700
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 10:30 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> The patter I usually follow in such cases:
> And people start to understand why I'm so hard-core about having
> test machines.
Yup. I do the same. The specific need, which I do hit periodically,
is:
I've got a Debian system but I need to build package FOO slightly
differently from the default package. How do I do that? How was
that package built and configured the first time?
I recently had that exact problem as I needed to built some PHP4
modules (mnoGoSearch in particular) that are not packaged under
Debian. I then follow the patter I quoted on my test machine to get
the details of how Debian builds and packages PHP4 by default,
edited that as appropriate to build what I wanted, got it pretty
there, and then rolled to production.
> I'm very paranoid about making changes to a production machine
> that I haven't already made to a test machine.
Damned right. Even then I get burnt sometimes (things I forgot or
didn't know to check for).
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I never claimed to be human.
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