[rt-users] Installation on debian Woody

[Atkinson, Daniel]

Thanks for the advice. I'm still in the config/testing stages with RT at the
moment but I plan to get a decent-spec box up and running in the next week
or two and work towards a rollout. I think I'll go for the apt pinning
method and see how it goes.

Dan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Brøgger [mailto:Rasmus.Brogger at uni-c.dk] 
Sent: 09 September 2003 15:30
To: Atkinson, Daniel
Cc: 'Benjamin Reed'; 'rt-users at lists.fsck.com'
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Installation on debian Woody

I would not recommend running Debian Sarge on a production system.

Its been a long time since Sarge was "stable" for production usage, imo.

apt pinning is the solution if any, but you'll still have issues conserning
security-advisorices and patches.

/rhb

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 02:36:06PM +0100, Atkinson, Daniel wrote:
> Interesting, I'll take a look.
> 
> When I did my upgrade I went to Sarge, the testing release. This was
> sufficient to install RT3, didn't need to go to unstable. 
> 
> Forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something here....
> 
> Dan.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Reed [mailto:ben at oculan.com] 
> Sent: 09 September 2003 14:33
> To: Atkinson, Daniel
> Cc: 'rt-users at lists.fsck.com'
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Installation on debian Woody
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> Atkinson, Daniel wrote:
> 
> | I have RT3 running on Debian.
> |
> | I installed woody and upgraded it to sarge using 'apt-get
> dist-upgrade' then
> | installed RT using 'apt-get request-tracker3'.
> |
> | I also had to install postgres and do various configuration steps but
> now it
> | is all up and running and seems to be working fine.
> 
> What I did was use a woody, but upgraded as little as possible to make
> rt3 installable.  You can do this through "pinning", ie having the
> sources to stable, testing, and unstable in your sources.list, but
> telling apt to weigh it so it prefers stable unless you specifically say
> otherwise.
> 
> Then you can have a woody system, but do:
> 
> ~  sudo apt-get -t unstable request-tracker3
> 
> ...and it will get the bare minimum from unstable to satisfy the
> dependencies (which is still, unfortunately, a lot, but it beats running
> a *completely* unstable system... =)
> 
> See http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html for more info on
> pinning.
> 
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