: Generic updater for php-applications and other webapps I administer a few servers, on some of which are a lot of users which happily deploy mediawikis and oder php-applications. This gives me

@Carla537

Create your own Debian package files from the source. If you're feeling really kind, kick them upstream to the unstable distributions. I suggest grabbing the source package that already exists, replacing it with the current source, and updating the package definitions as fit (necessary versions, packager id, etc).

This allows you to build it once, install it wherever, and use the system's packaging tools to keep it up to date. You can establish your own repository that is entered into /etc/apt/sources.list or you can push the files through custom scripts or a management tool like Puppet.

Then you just have to convince your users to not install things that aren't packaged...

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