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<div>Yes and no. My rule of thumb has always been to use the packaged version of a software package unless there's a very good reason not to.</div>
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<div>We maintain a local package repository as well (using debarchiver), so if we need to make a custom version of a Debian/Ubuntu package, we generally make the change to the debian source package, build it with a new localised version number, and then upload
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">12:24:13 tjrc@farm3-head2:~$ apt-cache policy blcr-dkms</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">blcr-dkms:</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> Installed: 0.8.5-2.1~sanger2</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> Candidate: 0.8.5-2.1~sanger2</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> Version table:</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> *** 0.8.5-2.1~sanger2 0</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> 500 http://debian.internal.sanger.ac.uk/debian-sanger/ precise/main amd64 Packages</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> 0.8.2-15ubuntu2.1 0</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> 500 http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/universe amd64 Packages</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> 0.8.2-15ubuntu2 0</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"> 500 http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">12:24:54 tjrc@farm3-head2:~$ </span></p>
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<div>There are other cases where we just build from source separately (generally if it's something which has to work across multiple Linux versions, and therefore sits in our /software NFS filesystem). We do this for our centrally supported R distributions,
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Tim</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Jonathan Aquilina <<a href="mailto:jaquilina@eagleeyet.net">jaquilina@eagleeyet.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, 20 May 2016 at 11:34<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Tim Cutts <<a href="mailto:tjrc@sanger.ac.uk">tjrc@sanger.ac.uk</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Christopher Samuel <<a href="mailto:samuel@unimelb.edu.au">samuel@unimelb.edu.au</a>>, Beowulf <<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Beowulf] cluster os<br>
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Going a bit off track from upgrades here. In a cluster environment with debian do you spend a fair bit of time compiling anything from source?</p>
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