On 2002.05.28 04:03 Jeff A wrote: > > > From: Andrew McNaughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 27 May 2002 21:02 > > To: Ian D. Stewart > ... > > You miss most of the advantage of debian's package management > > if you start building core components independently. Debian > > looks after you pretty well, but it's a bit of an all or > > nothing affair. ie it's worth a little effort to stick > > with the debian packages if you can. > > I agree with Andrew - getting Apache, Mod_SSL, PHP4 and mod_perl > with PHP4/MySQL and mod_perl/mySQL all co-operating is a relative > doddle with Debian packaging. Especially in view of the volume of > the 'I cant build...' comments on the mod_perl mailing lists. > > We usually wget the .debs we want installed as a set, into a dir > e.g. /usr/local/deb/<build date> and then do a > dpkg -i *.deb > apt-get check > > FYI, these are SOME of the installed packages on our Dev server > yes - it's a bit messy, but it's potato flavoured, with woody > extras, and we don't seem to have any issues. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > apache 1.3.23-1 Versatile, high-performance HTTP server > apache-common 1.3.23-1 Support files for all Apache webservers > libapache-mod-ssl 2.8.7-1 Strong cryptography (HTTPS support) > libssl0.9.6 0.9.6c-1 SSL shared libraries > > mysql-client 3.23.46-2 mysql database client binaries > mysql-common 3.23.46-2 mysql database common files > libmysqlclient 3.23.38-2 mysql database client library > > perl 5.6.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and > libperl5.6 5.6.1-7 Shared Perl library. > > libapache-dbi-perl 0.88-5 Connect apache server to database via > libapache-mod-perl 1.26-2 Integration of perl with the Apache web > libapache-reload-perl 0.07-1 Reload changed modules in a mod_perl > libapache-request-perl 0.33-1 Generic Apache Request Library > libapache-session-perl 1.54-1 Perl modules for keeping persistent > libapache-ssi-perl 2.16-1 perl Apache::SSI - Implement Server Side > libdbd-mysql-perl 1.2216-2 mySQL database interface for Perl > libdbi-perl 1.21-2 The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce > > php4 4.1.2-1 A server-side, HTML-embedded scripting > php4-mysql 4.1.2-1 MySQL module for php4 > php4-pear 4.1.2-1 PEAR - PHP Extension Application Reposit > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Ok. I'll give it a another go. Interestingly, I have not seen a lot of "I can't build this" messages on modperl, but have seen a fair number of "why isn't this working messages on debian-user. Ian
