Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 22:51, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Thanks for all who replied.
>
> Like I said, this machine will be a web/mail/dns server, and not much
> else.  All the major components are already in SUSE (SLES and 9.3).
> The stuff that I routinely update/rebuild are mostly postfix,
> amavisd-new and related packages.  I don't know how SUSE feels about
> package versions being updated by the client (me) but I don't think they
> like it very much.

Come on, rebuilding postfix on a server?  Why, why?

And I was thinking you might have some very, very special requirements.

There is absolutely not recommended (not sane) to rebuild postfix and related 
stuff on a server.  It's pretty clear, SLES would be the best option.

> I guess 5 years of updates makes sense, but then I don't plan to update
> SUSE Pro every six months.  Whatever I put on will stay on until the box
> dies or it becomes absolutely necessary to upgrade the hardware.

I'd say whatever you put on it stays there until it's out of maintenance.