Re[3]: [Cumbria] Mandrake 9.1

[Luke Antins]

You should of been making your own packages, thats what I do.
Make your own slack packs with your own configuration, make sure you keep
your build scripts so all you have to do when you upgrade is to re-run
your build script :)

--
Kind Regards
Luke Antins

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Ian Linwood wrote:

> Hello Luke,
>
> Saturday, April 12, 2003, 9:55:44 PM, you wrote:
>
> > if you have a lot
> > of software compiled from
> > source you will have to recompile it with the new
> > glibc but thats about
> > it.
>
> That's my trouble :-(
>
> I tend not to use packages. I always compile from source. That way I
> know what's in the software. I can also customise to make a bit more
> secure. One obvious one is to install to non default path. The amount
> of logs I seen where attacks are made on Apache (and others), relying
> on *know paths* to executables is unbelievable.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Ian                            mailto:ian@darksideofthemoon.org.uk
>
>
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