More fuel into flames.
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Originally Posted by Absolution
Every security update, every patch where you need to recompile. Every kernel update (biggest thing). Incompatibilities on kernels, on libraries. Libraries not being found even though I just compiled the files (nfnetlink_queue). ./configure failing, make failing, libtool not adding the library files correctly.
General nuances: updating apache? well, you may as well update php too, well your updating php, probably should update mysql for the new libraries. there goes 45 minutes.
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Switch to Debian and learn to run "aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade". Done. If you need to compile stuff yourself for whatever reason, there are two things you can blame. Customer and the distribution.
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Originally Posted by Absolution
I'm sure if you have physical access, its a lot easier than just using ssh to do everything.
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Physical access changes very little. You can do virtually everything over SSH with very little fuzz.