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.