Building your own vs. deploying OS packaged version of MIT Kerberos?

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:47:09AM -0400, Tareq Alrashid wrote:
> The new world order seem to demand some adjustments to how we do
> things nowadays with on premise and cloud service deployment.  We
> know how many OS’es come with prebuilt versions Kerberos RHEL/OS
> X…etc.,  and I am starting to ponder if efficiency could be optimized
> if we no longer built our own Kerberos binaries from downloaded MIT
> source, but rather just configure OS’s e.g. RHEL 7 version of
> krb5-1.13?  RedHat does release security patches with OS patches and
> that can save us some manual labor.
> 
> Is this an obvious non-issue as which version we choose to deploy or
> is the known philosophy, I have been following since 1999; download
> from MIT and build on my own.
> 
> I have my own opinion, but I also wonder what others had in mind
> 
> Thank you,
> Tareq

I'd use vendor provided packages whenever possible, unless you have
some very specific need to roll from source.  Scales better and frees
your time to do other, valuable things. :)

Ray