On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:17 pm, Anand Kumria wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:48:19AM +1100, James Gray wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Does anyone have the inside scoop on what's happened to the backported > > (Debian) apps at packages.dotdeb.org (aka, moolfreet.com)?? I've been > > using their apache/mysql/php packages for ages and they are quite good. > > I want to upgrade to PHP5 :) > > Hmm, I've never heard of dotdeb before - but I would recommend > backports.org. The key advantage I feel backports.org has is that it > only allows Debian developers to upload backports. > > This means that the person who packaged the package for Debian (3.1) > can also do the backport as well. > > Anand
Agreed. I also use backports.org for most stuff, except Apache, PHP and MySQL. Backports.org *don't* have PHP5 packaged up. Pitty, because I'm working on some stuff at the moment that requires some new features in PHP5 and I'd really prefer to stick with backports.org for the reasons you mention above. The guys over at dotdeb.org seem to have the bleeding-edge versions of Apache/PHP/MySQL packaged up and regularly updated with security/bug-fix versions; which works for me. BTW, dotdeb.org went MIA due to a server crash: www.dotdeb.org has a brief description of what went wrong. They are still putting everything back together :( Cheers, James -- There are no data that cannot be plotted on a straight line if the axis are chosen correctly.
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