[rt-users] What to exclude from auto-updates

[Josh Narins]

Lots of people will differ, but I like to set up things like this:

yum (or apt-get, or whatever) gets full control over the system.

Everything I use in production, however, uses binaries (and associated libraries) I build from source. I have lots of experience building all the stuff I need from source, so it is not a problem for me.

For example, sometimes I do it under /home/simple or /opt and I install my version of perl and perl libraries, httpd, mod_perl, mod_ssl,  my Pg database, and, for this use case, RT.

I install all those packages to /opt or /home/simple so there is a /opt/bin, /opt/lib, /opt/share, etc.







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From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Gareth Tupper
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:31 AM
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Subject: [rt-users] What to exclude from auto-updates

Having spent a harrowing time recovering my RT install from the willful vagaries of CentOS's yum updates* I'd now like to never have to do that again.

To this end, can anyone suggest which packages I should not allow to be updated through yum/rpm , or packages that I should only update through cpan?


Many thanks,

Gareth


* Apache wouldn't load following updates, but that was easily fixed by updating File::Temp in cpan.  It then however left me in the state of not running RT and instead trying to download a blank file.  This was finally fixed by pulling all my hair out, crying in a corner, and finally deleting /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Scalar/Util.pm from disk & reinstalling Scalar::Util from cpan.
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