I have moved all the extra packages into a extra section...those that want the newer stuff (and ssl support) can add "extra" to their apt line. I will continue to keep those packages up to date (I'm currently building new php3/4 packages and all the libapache modules)
Ivan On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:51:35PM +0200, Magnus Lassus wrote: > As Ivan asked for some input regarding the new packages that had been > included from woody. > > First of all I would like to express my thanks to Ivan for the work he > is doing as debian life would not be as easy for us who enjoy KDE2. > > Secondly the machine which I am trying this out on at the moment is by > no means a clean Potato machine as it is running XF4 and 2.4 and > obviously some other tools from Woody. Futher it has a lot of > unneccesary packages running as this is a test machine I use since I'm > giving some Linux classes. > > However, bringing major packages as parts of apache and ssl from Woody > down to Potato is by no means an unproblematic issue and at the moment I > am getting conflicts with the following packages: > sslwrap (depends on libssl09 which conflicts with libssl096) > libapache-mod-ruby (due to apache-common) > libapache-mod-auth-pam (dito) > libapache-mod-perl (dito) > php3 (dito) > > I.e. there are a number of packages depending on the versions in stock > Potato. Obviously all can be solved quite easily by either holding back > packages or getting newer from Woody. > > But my concern with is is now that if there were to arrive e.g. a > security update to apache or any other packages on hold it would be no > longer a simple daily apt upgrade to get the machine up to date and one > really need to follow the alerts and remember what one has on hold. > > These are by no means showstoppers as one should anyway follow the > alerts, but just an opinion that it might be wiser to try to stay as > close to Potato as possible and maybe leave out functionality out of KDE > that would require updates to core Potato packages. > > While in opinion mode, I'd like to express another opinion on an issue > that was discussed a while back that the dependancies on alsa had been > voted down. I am one who would vote the other way around and would be > happy to see a dependancy on alsa as I am using ALSA (from cvs) for the > sequencer support for my SB Live. > > Regards, > Magnus > _____________________________ > F:ma M Lassus > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---end quoted text--- -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
