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 installtheir 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 -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra