[ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?

[leam hall]

Agreed. If there is a use case for compiled, then yee-haa. Otherwise, yum.
The ideal is that if the Devs say they "must" have the latest then let them
build the RPM for you to install.



On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com> wrote:

> They are not crazy but you will be jumping through a bunch of hoops you
> don't need to.  There's only a very few edge cases where you might need to
> compile-
>
> Bottom line-- If you need a feature not in the packaged version, compile
> your own (I would still package it.)
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Trying to get back on A topic which relates to linux....
>>
>> If you were charged with putting up a secure internal Web Services
>> framework on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4 for a financial application, would
>> you:
>>
>> "yum install tomcat6"
>>
>> or,
>>
>> go to Apache.org, download the sources, compile, and pray.
>>
>>
>>  No, this is not a trick question.    I've always just used the tested
>> supplied Redhat version which "just works".  But there are apparently other
>> opinions, just trying to figure out if they are crazy.
>>
>> Neal Rhodes
>> MNOP Ltd
>>
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