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Re: Potato ssl and apache



I have moved all the extra packages into a extra section...those that want
the newer stuff (and ssl support) can add "extra" to their apt line.  I will
continue to keep those packages up to date (I'm currently building new
php3/4 packages and all the libapache modules)

Ivan


On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:51:35PM +0200, Magnus Lassus wrote:
> As Ivan asked for some input regarding the new packages that had been
> included from woody.
> 
> First of all I would like to express my thanks to Ivan for the work he
> is doing as debian life would not be as easy for us who enjoy KDE2.
> 
> Secondly the machine which I am trying this out on at the moment is by
> no means a clean Potato machine as it is running XF4 and 2.4 and
> obviously some other tools from Woody. Futher it has a lot of
> unneccesary packages running as this is a test machine I use since I'm
> giving some Linux classes.
> 
> However, bringing major packages as parts of apache and ssl from Woody
> down to Potato is by no means an unproblematic issue and at the moment I
> am getting conflicts with the following packages:
>  sslwrap (depends on libssl09 which conflicts with libssl096)
>  libapache-mod-ruby (due to apache-common)
>  libapache-mod-auth-pam (dito)
>  libapache-mod-perl (dito)
>  php3 (dito)
> 
> I.e. there are a number of packages depending on the versions in stock
> Potato. Obviously all can be solved quite easily by either holding back
> packages or getting newer from Woody.
> 
> But my concern with is is now that if there were to arrive e.g. a
> security update to apache or any other packages on hold it would be no
> longer a simple daily apt upgrade to get the machine up to date and one
> really need to follow the alerts and remember what one has on hold.
> 
> These are by no means showstoppers as one should anyway follow the
> alerts, but just an opinion that it might be wiser to try to stay as
> close to Potato as possible and maybe leave out functionality out of KDE
> that would require updates to core Potato packages.
> 
> While in opinion mode, I'd like to express another opinion on an issue
> that was discussed a while back that the dependancies on alsa had been
> voted down. I am one who would vote the other way around and would be
> happy to see a dependancy on alsa as I am using ALSA (from cvs) for the
> sequencer support for my SB Live.
> 
> Regards,
> Magnus
> _____________________________
> F:ma M Lassus
> mailto:mlassus@walli.uwasa.fi
> 
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