On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 09:40 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:16:30AM -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote:
I do agree that the .rpmnew thing is annoying, and I wish there was a better way to handle that.
I think in general, packaging webapps into RPM is of low value. I've tried to use these packages in production several times over the years, and inevitably become frustrated and which I'd just installed from upstream as upstream expects. Not coincidentally, see the presentation I just posted in a another thread. :)
FWIW I have the exact opposite experience; I run some webapps from RPM packages and some installed directly and I far prefer the RPM packaged ones. I only wish there were packages of the ones I have to install and maintain manually.
I even prefer the experience of running a webapp from a package *when I have to do a lot of the maintenance on the package* (Roundcube).