I think you may be thinking of a lab setup, but the original poster
seems to have been talking about putting bacula into production.
Understanding how to recompile is indeed very important. And actually
recompiling makes a lot of sense in a lab environment. It really is not
very difficult. Recompiling packages is one of the greatest strengths of
open source. It's also one of the greatest weaknesses; it makes for
brittle servers and undermines efforts at configuration management. And
for that reason, I wish we could get away from this culture of
"recompiling".
Distribution vendors do the recompiling all the time - and they have
whole teams of developers doing that all day. As a lone warrior, you
can't expect to be able to provide anywhere near enough testing - or
even keeping up with updates - to compile with the likes of RedHat,
SuSE, Xandros, ...
And for a production machine, there really is only one criterion that
matters: stability. I certainly don't want to be the one spending all
day trying to track down why some home-compiled program coredumped just
because of a new security patch to some other library. Let alone explain
to my customer why the company's main server was down all day. I want to
be able to tell him "RedHat fixed that problem for you before it ever
hit your server."
That's why I said to only use recompiling as the last resort. I think a
compiler has no place on a production server, except for extremely
tightly controlled and well-justified situations.
Bob Hetzel wrote:
> 1) If you use the version that's not the latest, the bacula folks will most
> likely just tell you to upgrade to the latest version, so you might as well
> start there now and try to stay current.
>
> 2) On open source software that's where development is still "active" I'd
> highly recommend learning to configure/compile from source. You don't need
> to know how to program to do this and it's reasonably well written up in
> the Bacula docs at www.bacula.org. Documentation of decisions that go into
> compiling by the packagers is generally sparse or non-existent.
>
> 3) If you find a bug and happen to be the first one to report it you'll be
> able to test the fix (Kern and others have been really good in my
> experience with fixing bugs whenever they can get a full explanation plus
> output showing what's happening) much easier than if you have to wait for
> the next release followed by the next package release. Generally fixes are
> put out as patches of source code only (new "release" versions of bacula
> seem to be quarterly or so lately).
>
> 4) In addition, through configuring/compiling practice you'll probably
> obtain a much better understanding of how Linux/bacula/etc work. I don't
> compile very much at all on my systems, but bacula is definitely one to
> compile here where I work. Since you're running a Linux variant and
> bacula's active development takes place on Linux you won't likely hit a
> compiling problem that's not easy to solve.
>
> In my case I just put my compile options in a script so I don't have to
> re-figure them out every time and so it takes only about 5 mins to install
> a new bacula version or a patch fix.
>
> Bob
>
> Previously, Kevin Keane said...
>
> > There is no 100% cut-and-dried answer here, but a couple thoughts:
> >
> > - Regardless of what you do, I would not use a version older than, say,
> > 2.2. Preferably use 2.4.
> >
> > - You may want to stay with the version you have been testing. After all,
> > your test results may not apply to other versions.
> >
> > - If you can, use the version that comes with your distribution, in this
> > case with Ubuntu 8.04. It makes updating and maintenance a lot easier.
>
> > - If the Ubuntu version is too old, see if you can find a newer version
> > already compiled for Ubuntu 8.04 somewhere else.
> >
> > Only as a last resort recompile yourself. Reynier P?rez Mira wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > > Hi every:
> > > > I've been testing Bacula for more than six months. Right now my boss
> > > > ask
> > > > to me for a suitable version for production. Wich version did yours
> > > > recommend me? I use Ubuntu Server and I was thinking to use the
> > > > version
> > > > post in the repository for LTS (Ubuntu 8.04) release. This will be
> > > > fine?
> > > > Thanks and cheers in advance
> > >
>
>
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