Karl Fischer wrote:
> Ted Cooper wrote:
>> Karl Fischer wrote:
>>> Is there any good receipe out there about (easily) getting the
>>> (upgrade to the) newest version of exim on Debian (sarge|etch)
>>> without these troubles - ending up in compiling from source ?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for any hints ...
>> Sources arn't that bad .. let's see what you have to do ..
>
> well, I never said that ...
> But your giving away all the advantages of a package manager, aren't you?
> (not talking about the disadvantages here ... )
>
> exim isn't the only package I use (what a surprise) and I've got more
> than one box (on different platforms) to maintain so fetching the source,
> compile it, watch for errors and then - of course - do this on a test
> system first before cou go live with it is significantly more work than
>
> aptitude update; aptitude upgrade ...
Well .. I kinda wrote my own. Since I have enough custom machines that
upgrading them would be a pain, they check back with a central server
once a day and pick up any new packages I have for them. The package is
a gpg encrypted/signed bash script that downloads the source, configures
it how I like it, makes, installs and reports back to me on its status.
>> No need to be afraid of the sources ..
>
> I'm working with Linux long enough (10+ years) for not to be afraid about
> sources, however, I confess: I'm just lazy and looking for an easier way ;-)
>
> Thanks Ted for the comment anyway ...
I seem to be addicted to automating everything so finding the easier way
for me generally means programming for a few days to get something done
that would normally take a few hours :P
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The Exim Manual
http://www.exim.org/docs.html
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html
