Greetings, On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 August 2004 01:50 pm, Michael MacFadden wrote: > > Depends: apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl | apache2, php4 | php4-cgi | > > libapache2-mod-php4 > > This is a minor thing, but I'm pretty sure the current preference is to list > the apache2 stuff first, as it will be default in Sarge, and is what new > users should be installing by default. I have a somewhat different impression, apache2 seems to have its share of problems. Debian's apache2 packages have seen 12 uploads during the last two months [0] and PHP manual explicitly states [1]: Do not use Apache 2.0.x and PHP in a production environment neither on Unix nor on Windows. For information on why, read the following FAQ entry. > So, > Depends: apache2 | apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl, libapache2-mod-php4 | > php4 | php4-cgi > > Cheers, > nate While seemingly innocent, this change may have some "interesting" consequences. Consider a situation when apache2 is provided by the recommended apache2-mpm-worker package. If PHP is not installed, the first candidate to satisfy the second dependency is libapache2-mod-php4, which depends on apache2-mpm-prefork (>= 2.0.50-10). This, in turn, conflicts with all other apache2 MPM flavors (including apache2-mpm-worker). As a result, the apache2-mpm-worker is going to be (quite unexpectedly) removed and replaced by apache2-mpm-prefork, possibly, contrary to user's wishes. This is just one example, but there is not guarantee that similar problems will not be encountered while analyzing the remaining 11 (4x3-1) ways to satisfy the dependencies :-). [0] /usr/share/doc/apache2-common/changelog.Debian.gz [1] http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php Best regards, Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
