On Thursday 18 March 2004 08:52, Kurt Yoder wrote:
>Stefan G. Weichinger said:
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>> By compiling your own binaries you get the freedom to choose YOUR
>> own setup, to set YOUR firewall-settings, to assure that YOUR
>> version of AMANDA does exactly the job you want it to.
>>
>> And it stays YOUR setup with each new release of AMANDA.
>>
>> All this with a small shell-script.
>>
>> I think this is worth the effort of figuring out the
>> configure-options.
>
>I would agree that compiling is pretty easy. You can even recompile
> included Linux distribution packages if you get the source package
> and do a few simple steps.
>
>However, there are still big advantages to using "stock" packages.
> For instance, I have an internet-accessible Debian machine that
> checks for security updates every hour and automatically installs
> any that it finds. If I have amanda installed using the "stock"
> Debian package, any vulnerabilities in amanda that get patched by
> the Debian maintainer will automatically be installed.
>
>If I do my own package, this update needs to wait until I am around
> to pay attention to it, which might take a week if I am away on
> vacation. I suppose there may be a way to also recompile/source
> install Debian packages when upstream security updates become
> available, but I haven't figured it out yet.

I'd counter that argument by asking how many security fixes have been 
applied to amanda in the last 3 years.  Far fewer I'd wager, than the 
actual number of updated releases in that same time frame.  Read the 
ChangeLog if in doubt.
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