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Re: WordPress on Debian

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On 9/19/16 3:36 PM, David Wright wrote:

> On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 13:43:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I make a new user on the server for each new WP site, and then install
>>>>>> their WP in /home/$user/www . much simpler than having bits of it all
>>>>>> over the machine.
>>>>>
>>> So what I'm hearing is that I should forego using apt/aptitude to install
>>> WordPress, and just install in manually?
> Neither of those people appear to reveal their update policy or how
> they deal with security fixes.
>

I just use the built in WordPress updater - which takes care of 
everything.  No need to worry about whether some packager has updated 
both the core and every theme and module that I use (guaranteed, they 
haven't).

Now, when it comes to perl based systems, such as the sympa mailing list 
manager (mailman, too for that matter), - better to use cpan to install 
and update all of one's perl system and modules.

As to security fixes - those are far more likely to come from upstream, 
in a timely manner.

Apt is a fantastic package management system, for widely used things, 
that don't change very often.  For anything else, relying on human 
packagers is a recipe for disaster - particularly when dealing with, 
potentially, 3 layers of packaging (the upstream package, an 
intermediate packaging system like cpan, and the Debian repository.)

Miles Fidelman



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WordPress on Debian Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-09-19 18:20 +0200
  Re: WordPress on Debian Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-09-19 18:30 +0200
    Re: WordPress on Debian Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-19 19:00 +0200
      Re: WordPress on Debian Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-09-19 20:40 +0200
        Re: WordPress on Debian Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-09-19 20:50 +0200
          Re: WordPress on Debian David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 21:50 +0200
            Re: WordPress on Debian Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2016-09-19 22:30 +0200
            Re: WordPress on Debian Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2016-09-19 22:50 +0200
        Re: WordPress on Debian davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-09-19 22:00 +0200
        Re: WordPress on Debian Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-09-21 18:40 +0200
  Re: WordPress on Debian Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-19 18:30 +0200
  Re: WordPress on Debian Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 22:40 +0200

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