[Mapserver-users] Preferred Linux distro? (ease of upkeep)

[Lowell Filak]

We only have a limited amount of experience with upgrading a machine
running an MS app., but did not run into a problem because the RPM
upgrade, for example, gd-1.8.3-7 did not require the removal of
gd-devel-1.3-6 so MS ran along happily, this is not necessarily the norm.
Since then we have moved MS to it's own machine and ProxyPass map
requests to it so it can live in it's own environment.
Unless MS becomes an app. on the standard RH, Suse, Debian, update list
I don't foresee an automatic way to upgrade the system because of the
dependencies.
Maybe someone could come up with a killer MS app. that allows anyone
with a linux distribution installed to reorganize their office funiture
visually via MS and then it would become a standard package in each
distribution which would then require any automatic updates to take it
into account.
Lowell

The following message was sent by Erich Schroeder
<erich at museum.state.il.us> on Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:15:50 -0500 (CDT).

> Hi all,
>   One of the problems that I've had with mapserver has to be with the 
> general maintainence of the server itself. For other server applications 
> I've pretty much settled on RedHat (about 9 different servers doing 
> different things) with the new addition of the apt port for rpm. This has 
> made general upgrades really easy, as long as I stay away from 
> hand-compiled applications. Major upgrades can still be painful, of 
> course.
> 
>   After my first few applications in the mapsever 2.something range, I 
> have tended to make the mapserver server a separate specalized machine. 
> Still, it would be great if the general upkeep remained as easy as 
> possible. Given that, what has been the experience of list members on the 
> comparative ease of installation, deployment, and maintainence of 
> different linux flavors? 
> 
>   My current experiment has been my first ever debian installation, and I
> have managed to follow (with some changes) the debian mapserver
> information on the mapserver wiki, along with editing the easymapsever
> script to get a compiled version of mapserver 40b along with php-cgi etc.
> This still has a hand-built feel about it, and would be pretty awful for
> an ISP who might want to provide mapserver as a feature.
> 
> Erich
> 
> 
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