Small debian based server distribution

[Elazar Leibovich]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/10/28 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>:
> > I'm curious, since I'm having the very same problem on CentOS/RHEL. There
> > are many basic packages which just doesn't exist in the main repository
> > (say, python 2.6) and I'm not sure how to add them in a nice way to the
> > distro.
> > Currently I'm just `make install`ing it from the source, but it has all
> the
> > downsides you mentioned.
>
> rpmforge, epel and rpmfind (or google "package-name rpm") are your friends.
>
> Just configure them as additional yum repositories, rpmforge even
> provides a basic initial rpm to do just that for you.
>

I didn't find any RHEL repository/RPMs on the net that supports as rich
variety of packages, as, say, Fedora. Except of EPEL which is still not that
complete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#What_is_EPEL.3F.
Do you suggest to use the Fedora repositories for RHEL? In that case it
might create dependency hell (try to install package from debian stable in
debian testing, it'll attempt to replace half of your system!)

And why isn't that relevant for Ubuntu? It seems a to be also a valid
solution there.


>
> We also build our own rpm's when we can't find them and of course for
> in-house software. Once you get the hang of it and setup a build
> environment it's a no-brainer.
>

Do share those RPMs with the community if you can!

[snipped]

> And again - for servers consider Puppet to control what goes there.
>

Heard about it,  but haven't tried it. I'll give it a look.


>
> --Amos
>
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