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<ol><li>Why are you advising to install a beta version of a software package? Most SME Server are production servers and need stability. Packages that are labeled beta are well known to cause problems as they are no where near a stable release.</li></li><li>Do you really need the CentOS-testing repository? Packages installed in this repository are bleeding edge and still have to be tested on CentOS, they can not be labeled stable. As SME Server tries to be a robust server installing stuff from a testing repository is for testing purposes and not for stable releases</li><li>Why do you need mysql-server? There is already a version installed on SME Server. Is that one not sufficient? It has been proven in the past that installing a newer version of MySQL would almost certainly brake things like webmail.</li></ol> | <ol><li>Why are you advising to install a beta version of a software package? Most SME Server are production servers and need stability. Packages that are labeled beta are well known to cause problems as they are no where near a stable release.</li></li><li>Do you really need the CentOS-testing repository? Packages installed in this repository are bleeding edge and still have to be tested on CentOS, they can not be labeled stable. As SME Server tries to be a robust server installing stuff from a testing repository is for testing purposes and not for stable releases</li><li>Why do you need mysql-server? There is already a version installed on SME Server. Is that one not sufficient? It has been proven in the past that installing a newer version of MySQL would almost certainly brake things like webmail.</li></ol> | ||
IMHO you are better of writing a HowTo on installing the lastest stable version of this package and wait for the new version to become at least a release candidate before teaching people how to install such a package. - [[User:Cactus|Cactus]] 01:03, 30 August 2007 (MDT) | IMHO you are better of writing a HowTo on installing the lastest stable version of this package and wait for the new version to become at least a release candidate before teaching people how to install such a package. - [[User:Cactus|Cactus]] 01:03, 30 August 2007 (MDT) | ||
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| + | I do need the CentOS testing repo, the current version of ruby is 1.8.1 and the version needed to install Metadot 7 is ruby 1.8.5 | ||
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| + | I do believe that the current version of metadot is stable enough, as i have tested it on a test server as well as an production server without any problems so far | ||
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| + | I am in the process of checking the installation procedures and will double check if a later version of mysql-server is required. | ||
Revision as of 11:45, 30 August 2007
I have a few remarks to your HowTo:
- Why are you advising to install a beta version of a software package? Most SME Server are production servers and need stability. Packages that are labeled beta are well known to cause problems as they are no where near a stable release.
- Do you really need the CentOS-testing repository? Packages installed in this repository are bleeding edge and still have to be tested on CentOS, they can not be labeled stable. As SME Server tries to be a robust server installing stuff from a testing repository is for testing purposes and not for stable releases
- Why do you need mysql-server? There is already a version installed on SME Server. Is that one not sufficient? It has been proven in the past that installing a newer version of MySQL would almost certainly brake things like webmail.
IMHO you are better of writing a HowTo on installing the lastest stable version of this package and wait for the new version to become at least a release candidate before teaching people how to install such a package. - Cactus 01:03, 30 August 2007 (MDT)
I do need the CentOS testing repo, the current version of ruby is 1.8.1 and the version needed to install Metadot 7 is ruby 1.8.5
I do believe that the current version of metadot is stable enough, as i have tested it on a test server as well as an production server without any problems so far
I am in the process of checking the installation procedures and will double check if a later version of mysql-server is required.
