[consulting] managing many sites

[Knite]

There are already Debian packages available.
The maintainers are Hilko Bengen <bengen at debian.org> and Sergio
Talens-Oliag <sto at debian.org>; I'm not sure if they are also drupal
developers.

The package homepage is http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/drupal.html

Currently 4.5.3 is available in Stable, 4.5.6 is in Testing/Unstable.

I run a couple Drupal sandbox sites on Debian, though I'm currently 
using the CVS method for keeping up to date.

Ken


On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:36:37PM -0800, puregin wrote:
> This is a totally different approach, but for those of us living in  
> the Linux
> world, perhaps packaging Drupal builds as RPMs (or Debian packages)
> would be an option.
> 
> This would allow periodic updates on modern systems via yum or
> equivalent.   This would handle packaging, signing, pre-install
> and post-install actions, etc. asynchronously.  There's still the
> problem of outdated modules, but that's going to be an issue with
> any approach.  One could specify not to upgrade if a specific
> module is too old...
> 
> This might also make initial installation easier for people...
> 
> Cheers, Djun
> 
> On 12-Dec-2005, at 11:18 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
> 
> >>Generally, I would say that this is not terribly easy.  One thing  
> >>that
> >>I am really impressed with in the world of updates is the way that
> >>Firefox periodically checks for updates and then downloads the
> >>necessary files and patches itself.  The same system works for
> >
> >Sure thing. We could RSS the core updates, maybe sprinkle with  
> >crypo, that's something the horde of Drupal developers could easily  
> >tackle. There is a minor glitch though: Apache is rarely configured  
> >in a way so that in can write the PHP scripts it runs...
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >NK
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