Quoting Timothy Wilson (wilson at visi.com): > Hey everyone, > > For you sysadmins out there: > > If I need to run a custom, patched version of Apache, should I skip the > Debian package and compile from source or would it be better to recompile > the source deb once the patch has been applied? My primary motivation is > ease of maintenance. How man machines run this software? If it's just 1 or 2, just skip the packaging. If it's more go for the package. At Real Time we package almost everything, because we have at a min 2 machines for each service (primary and backup) and because many of our clients run the same services packages make upgrades a whole lot easier. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9