On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:04:08PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm running out of time on this server setup (the previous one only has a > few days to live) so I decided to grab the dpkg files and use > --force-depends to install them. > > Well, dpkg told me (correctly) that php4 was not installed and was required. > A quick "apt-get install php4" caused Squirrelmail to automatically complete > its installation from my previous attempts to install with apt-get. > > So the missing dependency on PHP4 caused Apt to insist on installing Apache2 > and its libapache2-mod-php4. > > Now, is that bug? Is it something that aptitude would have made clearer? > > In any case, problem solved.
If you had to grab the dpkg files and use --force-depends to install them, I would consider it a bug. But I guess it would not be corrected in Sarge in case ... I mean, if an apt-get install squirrelmail tries to uninstall apache-ssl in favour of apache2 then it should be classified as a bug. You should not have to apt-get install php4 first as php4 is a dependency of squirrelmail. A bug filed is a bug archived. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
