[rt-users] Advice for New Machine

[Gary Greene]

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> Of Gary Greene
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:44 PM
> To: John Arends; rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Advice for New Machine
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf 
> > Of John Arends
> > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 1:16 PM
> > To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> > Subject: Re: [rt-users] Advice for New Machine
> > 
> > Gary Greene wrote:
> > > I would go CentOS for the machine if you're a RH person, 
> > since it is 
> > > practically the same thing, and there are more than a few 
> > of us CentOS 
> > > users running RT with our own RPMs.
> > >   
> > What version of RT are you running on top of CentOS? With 
> 3.8.2 there 
> > are so many dependencies it seems to be a near impossible 
> > task to build 
> > RPMs for all the required perl modules. I've been playing with the 
> > script included with RT and it does a pretty good job of pulling 
> > everything down from CPAN and installing it.
> 
> 3.8.1, I've yet to update to 3.8.2

Also I forgot to mention, I cheat a little with building RPMs by using the cpan2rpm script and then hand mod the specs that it generates to build reliable packages.

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
IT Operations
Minerva Networks, Inc.
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