Re: apache2 lenny backup crashes
On Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:34:15 Dominic Benson wrote:
> On 30 Jun 2011, at 07:01, Patrick Valsecchi wrote:
> > I was interested in the SNI feature for name base SSL virtual hosts in
> > apache. So I needed a fresher version of apache than the one available
> > in Lenny. I found one in Debian backports, so I've installed it. Since
> > then, apache crashes (coredump of a child /usr/sbin/apache2 process)
> > each time I go to a location where mod-auth-mysql is used.
> >
> > I guess this is because the libapache2-mod-auth-mysql (I have version
> > 4.3.9-11) has not been backported and this module is not compatible with
> > the version 2.2.16-6+squeeze1~bpo50+1 of apache. And I fear it's not the
> > only apache module that has this problem.
>
> The issue with backporting modules like this one is that they depend on two
> packages that are in backports, but a user may very well not want to use
> backported versions of both.
>
> The surest approach would be to get the source package and rebuild against
> the relevant apache2 -dev. If that doesn't appeal, if you install
> libmysqlclient16 from backports, then you can probably use the updated
> module package straight from Squeeze.
Seems like a dependencies hell. OK, I'll go another route, then: upgrade to
squeeze. Thanks for your help.
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