[Deploying Sakai] Very general advice regarding RHEL, MySQL

[Colin Tatham]

Great, thanks for that Robert!

Colin


On 7/09/11 3:31 PM, Robert Cohen wrote:

> 
> We're using RHEL 5.
> No specific issues with any particular versions.
> 
> Where ever possible I prefer to use the packages from redhat. That way  a "yum
> update" gets you any relevant security fixes.
> 
> Unfortunately, for sakai, you can't use the RHEL tomcat package.
> 
> So pretty much the only sakai related package you can use as are mysql,apache
> and java-sun
> And the mysql that comes with RHEL5 is 5.0. So if you want 5.1 you'll need to
> install you're own mysql also.
> 
> Anyway, the non standard packages we installed are
> 
> apache-maven
> apache-tomcat
> mysql-connector-java-local
> sakai
> 
> 
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> From:  Colin Tatham <colin.tatham at unimelb.edu.au>
> Date:  Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:49:34 +0000
> To:  production <production at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Subject:  [Deploying Sakai] Very general advice regarding RHEL, MySQL
> 
>> Very general advice regarding RHEL, MySQL
>> HI
>> 
>> I¹ve recently moved to Melbourne Uni (from Oxford), and although I¹m a
>> developer, I¹m going to be heavily involved in the proposed move from a
>> commercial hosting arrangement, to our central IT Services.
>> 
>> We¹ll be moving from CentOS to RHEL.
>> Judging by the production details in Confluence, RHEL 5 is used by quite a
>> few institutions ‹ are there any issues with specific versions of RHEL 5?
>> We¹ll probably go for the latest.
>> Similarly with MySQL, we¹ll be using 5.1, but are there any issues with
>> specific versions? Better to install using a package manager or download an
>> RPM from MySQL?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Colin

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