Stefan G. Weichinger said: <snipped>
> By compiling your own binaries you get the freedom to choose YOUR own > setup, to set YOUR firewall-settings, to assure that YOUR version of > AMANDA does exactly the job you want it to. > > And it stays YOUR setup with each new release of AMANDA. > > All this with a small shell-script. > > I think this is worth the effort of figuring out the > configure-options. I would agree that compiling is pretty easy. You can even recompile included Linux distribution packages if you get the source package and do a few simple steps. However, there are still big advantages to using "stock" packages. For instance, I have an internet-accessible Debian machine that checks for security updates every hour and automatically installs any that it finds. If I have amanda installed using the "stock" Debian package, any vulnerabilities in amanda that get patched by the Debian maintainer will automatically be installed. If I do my own package, this update needs to wait until I am around to pay attention to it, which might take a week if I am away on vacation. I suppose there may be a way to also recompile/source install Debian packages when upstream security updates become available, but I haven't figured it out yet. -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
