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

[Michael Trausch]

I would say it depends on need, but always use yum.

Setting up a proper repo can take some work and means that you have to manage updates and dependencies, but can mean additional functionality or better upstream support. If you're using Real Red Hat, then I would likely stick to official for support purposes unless there is some really big reason you need to compile from source and take on release, update and dependency management yourself. 

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On Aug 12, 2013, at 12:59 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.)
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>> 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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