I think you may be thinking of a lab setup, but the original poster seems to have been talking about putting bacula into production.
Understanding how to recompile is indeed very important. And actually recompiling makes a lot of sense in a lab environment. It really is not very difficult. Recompiling packages is one of the greatest strengths of open source. It's also one of the greatest weaknesses; it makes for brittle servers and undermines efforts at configuration management. And for that reason, I wish we could get away from this culture of "recompiling". Distribution vendors do the recompiling all the time - and they have whole teams of developers doing that all day. As a lone warrior, you can't expect to be able to provide anywhere near enough testing - or even keeping up with updates - to compile with the likes of RedHat, SuSE, Xandros, ... And for a production machine, there really is only one criterion that matters: stability. I certainly don't want to be the one spending all day trying to track down why some home-compiled program coredumped just because of a new security patch to some other library. Let alone explain to my customer why the company's main server was down all day. I want to be able to tell him "RedHat fixed that problem for you before it ever hit your server." That's why I said to only use recompiling as the last resort. I think a compiler has no place on a production server, except for extremely tightly controlled and well-justified situations. Bob Hetzel wrote: > 1) If you use the version that's not the latest, the bacula folks will most > likely just tell you to upgrade to the latest version, so you might as well > start there now and try to stay current. > > 2) On open source software that's where development is still "active" I'd > highly recommend learning to configure/compile from source. You don't need > to know how to program to do this and it's reasonably well written up in > the Bacula docs at www.bacula.org. Documentation of decisions that go into > compiling by the packagers is generally sparse or non-existent. > > 3) If you find a bug and happen to be the first one to report it you'll be > able to test the fix (Kern and others have been really good in my > experience with fixing bugs whenever they can get a full explanation plus > output showing what's happening) much easier than if you have to wait for > the next release followed by the next package release. Generally fixes are > put out as patches of source code only (new "release" versions of bacula > seem to be quarterly or so lately). > > 4) In addition, through configuring/compiling practice you'll probably > obtain a much better understanding of how Linux/bacula/etc work. I don't > compile very much at all on my systems, but bacula is definitely one to > compile here where I work. Since you're running a Linux variant and > bacula's active development takes place on Linux you won't likely hit a > compiling problem that's not easy to solve. > > In my case I just put my compile options in a script so I don't have to > re-figure them out every time and so it takes only about 5 mins to install > a new bacula version or a patch fix. > > Bob > > Previously, Kevin Keane said... > > > There is no 100% cut-and-dried answer here, but a couple thoughts: > > > > - Regardless of what you do, I would not use a version older than, say, > > 2.2. Preferably use 2.4. > > > > - You may want to stay with the version you have been testing. After all, > > your test results may not apply to other versions. > > > > - If you can, use the version that comes with your distribution, in this > > case with Ubuntu 8.04. It makes updating and maintenance a lot easier. > > > - If the Ubuntu version is too old, see if you can find a newer version > > already compiled for Ubuntu 8.04 somewhere else. > > > > Only as a last resort recompile yourself. Reynier P?rez Mira wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi every: > > > > I've been testing Bacula for more than six months. Right now my boss > > > > ask > > > > to me for a suitable version for production. Wich version did yours > > > > recommend me? I use Ubuntu Server and I was thinking to use the > > > > version > > > > post in the repository for LTS (Ubuntu 8.04) release. This will be > > > > fine? > > > > Thanks and cheers in advance > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. 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