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A new Linux worm

A new Linux worm

Posted Feb 22, 2006 20:47 UTC (Wed) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
In reply to: A new Linux worm by nhippi
Parent article: A new Linux worm

One of the many reasons I like Gentoo's Portage - web apps are (almost) first-class citizens there. webapp-config, while taking a bit to get used to, allows easy updating of web apps, with similar protection and managed updating of configuration files as in any other application. And it handles virtual hosts!


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A new Linux worm

Posted Feb 23, 2006 9:10 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

It is also in Debian and was also true for Mandrake last time I looked over three years ago.

However package managers don't interact well with SQL. And furthermore many of those programs are horribly packaged and are a pain to package correctly: no separation between the basic schema and data and the extra data the user adds.

For instance, have you seen any such sql app where the web app does not have full control over the database?

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