[Sysadmin] Next?

[Dean Mah]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:45 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
> Ok so clearly everyone in sysadmin but me wants to ditch qmail and
> re-engineer the entire mail system from the ground up using another MTA.
> That's fine.  I suppose one of you with more experience with that
> $other_as_yet_undecided_upon_MTA should take the reins on that project.
>
> Which leaves me looking for something to do.  So... what's next?
>
> I installed MySQL 5 and PHP 5 from debian repo's.
>
> But Drupal is not available in etch from the Debian package archives.  It's
> available from backports, but only at version 5.  Lenny has Drupal 6, so it
> may be coming to backports in the near future... but in the mean time I
> guess that means we should install Drupal from source, at least for now,
> since everyone seems to have their little hearts set upon the latest
> greatest Drupalage.

This brings up another question for me.  Do we stick to packages or
build from source when a newer version is available.  There are
packages for mediawiki and mailman but both are out of date.

Dean