Installing redis from distribution repo

[Yannik]

Hi,

currently it is not supported to install redis from the main repository of a servers distribution.

This may have been a good approach when redis was still in its infancy, but today you can get pretty mature versions of redis from these repos. It has the benefit of staying up-to-date with regards to security much easier than having to carefully watch changelogs/cves (and then install from source again).

Is this a deliberate design choice, or would you be open for a PR which supports installation from the distro repository?

If not, I'd be curious to learn why. :-)

Best regards
Yannik

[DavidWittman]

No reason other than your stated theory: it was good enough in its infancy, which is about when I made this role. And honestly -- as evidenced by the backlog of issues/PRs here -- I don't have time or a specific interest to change/test everything required to add the feature. I'd happily accept a PR implementing it, however.

[Yannik]

@DavidWittman

Hey David, I took the time to create a PR as approved by you earlier. It would be great if you could have a look at it :-)

[DavidWittman]

@DavidWittman

Hey David, I took the time to create a PR as approved by you earlier. It would be great if you could have a look at it :-)

Thank you for the nudge. My wife and I just had a baby this week, I'll try and take a look at this sometime over the next week or two.

[Yannik]

Thanks, David, and best of luck to your family!