As a Ubuntu user for years, why would you want to import a product like VB into into a DEB or RPM?
To be clear, I would preferrably like to have vbulletin as part of a Debian repo, and thus dependencies and upgrades are automatically tracked and handled.
.deb's may do some of this, but not as well (per my little experience with Debian).
A straight tar/manual install offers no dependency and upgrade automated support. Yes, PHP depends on many things (php rev, associated librarys, possibly Apache modules, mysql integration, etc). Or at least, that's been my experience.
Counter this with http://packages.debian.org/lenny/phpbb2 , a nicely-integrated-with Debian means of installing and upgrading phpBB. vBulletin could theoretically set up their own Debian repo server, but judging by these thread responses, they don't currently have such a thing.
10-22-2007, 01:51 PM
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