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Thanks - that does sound like a big advantage of the deb / rpm route. Plus you don't really want your app servers spending their CPU time compiling.

• hynek 14y ago
  That’s a plus too. An “aptitude dist-upgrade” is really fast.
  • St-Clock 14y ago
    Yes, but unless rpm/deb works with softlinks, it is not atomic right? Do you do anything before/after dist-upgrade or is it included in the pre/post install script? For example, for our deployment, we rely on softlinks and uwsgi robust reload behavior to avoid losing requests. I've seen many devops who were using hg update/git update as a way to "deploy" (arg!), but I'm not sure about the behavior of deb/rpm.
    • hynek 14y ago
      You can do whatever you want inside of the post-install hooks which are just shell scripts. Including any kind of soft link black magic. :) And you’re right: replacing files of a running application can lead to all kind of weirdness. I’d even prefer to lose some requests than to risk that.