frantishrek dijo [Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:01:09PM +0200]: > Hi, > > I did not find the answer on the web site. > > I use Cherokee 1.0.8 on Debian Squeeze (present on the stable > repository : http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz) > but I would like a recent version. > Is there an alternative repository for Cherokee (like backports...) ? > I don't want to use unstable repository. > > Or, what is your suggestion except compile it ;-) ?
Hi, I'm sorry for the late reply - I have been away from the keyboard for the past couple of days. Currently, yes, the only thing you can do is to install via the apt pinning - Now, do this WITH CARE and pull the minimal set of packages you can, as this is likely to cause other libraries to be pulled in - i.e. libcherokee-mod-libssl 1.2.2-1 depends on libssl0.9.8 >= 0.9.8m-1; libcherokee-mod-streaming 1.2.2-1 depends on several packages derived from libavcodec52 >= 4:0.6-1~, or libcherokee-mod-mysql 1.2.2-1 depends on libmysqlclient16 >= 5.1.21-1. What does this mean? That your server will pull in specific versions of libraries different from what is available on the Stable release to satisfy the dependencies... And that can trigger a snowball where your system is no longer stable, specially as we progress along the release cycle. And by the time our next Debian release is done, it could render your whole system unupgradeable. Besides, even though we Debian developers should never upload to unstable packages not suitable to migrate towards a stable release, I have broken Cherokee more than a couple of times during the past years... And if you follow the Unstable branch (Sid), you will very likely end up pulling my broken packages! I'd suggest you to follow the Testing branch (currently Wheezy), but as of right now, Cherokee is not part of it due to some bugs which don't allow builds to succeed on some architectures. What else can be done? Well, Álvaro has requested me to upload Cherokee backports to http://backports.debian.org/, but I have not even been able to give enough care to Cherokee as it is now - I don't want to commit to supporting it as a backport as well. I can only hope to get some time during the next couple of weeks to fix the current issues and let Cherokee migrate into Testing again. _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
