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version update [was Re: Closed source & Secutiry]



> I think the guy only wanted to know about kernel updates, and those
> don't update through apt, and for a very good reason usually.

Hi, 
I was the guy who asked for the updates,
thanks for the answers.  My point is that I have several system based on
all
kind of distributions (Debian, Red Hat, SuSE) but all have been changed
since
their originall install. On all of them there are a few (?) applications
that I have compiled from source.

I was looking for a way to semi-automate the upgrade process when  new
version
of something comes out.
That is I get a notification, I read a bit about the changes then I press a
button
that will download the source code, compile it with the same options I
compiled
the previous version and install it.

For most of the cases we are talking about the bigger applications like
bind or Apache or the kernel for that matter but on my own PC I might
want to do the same thing with a lot of small (less used) applications
as well.

I cannot and do not want to rely on the latest version from the original 
distribution as I used special options when compiled and because it
might take a lot of time till my distro creates a package of the
latest version of Apache.


> the question is, why stay on the tip of the latest kernel patch? are you
> really happy to risk compiling each and every one of them? 
now that is a good point but I don't necessarily want to install every
version
but I would like to get informed and when I decide to install 
I don't want to do all the manual work again.

OK. So I can write all kind of perl scripts to check the appropriate web
sites
for the latest versions, download them and even to run the compilation and
eventually that will happen but I don't wan't to invent the wheel so I
asked.

The above process might bring me to a distribution that has a very 
small set of core applications that come compiled and all the rest
of the applications come only as a link to the source code and a set of
options to compile the project. Then I can change the set of options
for each individual package and still remain within the real of the
distribution.
Am I talking about Debian actually or am talking just plain nonsense ?

regards
--Gabor

-- 
Gabor Szabo
http://www.tracert.com/  


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