Thanks Adam, that did the trick. I should have been able to think of this myself. Mind block due to frustration I guess, and too much dependance on apt...
Stan -----Original Message----- From: Adam Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 9/13/2006 8:29 PM To: Hoeppner, Stan D. Cc: debian-apache@lists.debian.org Subject: [BULK] Re: apt problem with libapache-mod-perl Hoeppner, Stan D. wrote: > > How can I FORCE apt to completely forget about, ignore (pick your > phrase) libapache-mod-perl and install my other packages??!??! You could bypass apt completely and just "dpkg -i whateverftpd.deb", if youreally want to. > P.S. If I knew how to create the .info file for them I'd have already > done so. See /usr/lib/apache/1.3/*.info as examples. Here's the one for php4: ===== LoadModule: php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so Directives: php_value php_flag php_admin_value php_admin_flag Description: Support for the PHP4 HTML-embedded scripting language ===== Basically, you need a (correct) LoadModule line and a Description, listing the Directives that a module provides used to be critical to how apacheconfig worked, but now it's just a nice reference and we don't directly require it. ... Adam
