> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------