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I'm interested in installing OSQA for a local domain-focused QA site. I'm going to run this on CentOS, and rather than installing disparate usptream packages, I'd prefer to simply enable EPEL and A major concern is that Django is 1.1.2, which is a bit old. Will that work? And as hinted above, if the Django package runs with Python 2.4, is OSQA going to be fine? Basically, the overall question is: should I doing this or should I wait until CentOS 6 and newer versions of everything? |
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I would never install django from a repository that is not updated frequently. I used to use the debian package but with pip or easy_install it is pointless. Just install python-setuptools from yum then pip install django. Pip for python packages is much better than using yum or apt 1
In general, EPEL packages, like RHEL, are updated when there are security fixes or serious bugfixes, but not gratuitously. That's exactly the characteristics one would want in the infrastructure underlying a production website. Otherwise, you're always fighting to keep the system running in new versions — or worse, neglecting updates out of fear of problems, and then eventually getting hacked. This site won't be my main responsibilty, so it has to just work.
(03 Dec '10, 19:25)
mattdm
@mattdm, I have been working on packaging Askbot for Fedora and EPEL. Fedora already has Askbot and EPEL will as well shortly. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Askbot. Feel free to get in touch with me if you need any help. I might look into packaging OSQA as well if I have time
(31 Jul '11, 06:46)
Rahul Sundaram
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