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

[Lightner, Jeff]

I agree with the prior posters.   We typically use RedHat packages from the repositories unless we can be given clear documentation why it won’t work (or if RedHat doesn’t have it in their repositories).

One reason is the fact that RedHat owns back porting bug and security fixes into whichever upstream version they started with and they don’t change that basic version other than that (for the most part) whereas upstream versions of things can change quite dramatically from one to the next which may be good for moving forward but is bad for stable Production systems.

Another reason is that you have support from RedHat and they have a harder time telling you “not our problem” when it came from their repository than if you rolled your own.

Of course there are edge cases where you do need something other than what is provided in the RHEL repositories.  Typically if that occurs I make sure the repository version lives where it should and put any other version in a completely different location to insure it doesn’t someday get overwritten by a “yum install” or “yum update”.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of leam hall
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 12:59 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Would you get Redhat Tomcat from Redhat or Apache?

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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