Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps
On 01/06/2012 05:12 PM, Miroslav Suchy wrote:
> On 01/06/2012 08:56 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> The issue is that most PHP packages in Debian have dependencies on web
>> servers, most of the time with something like this:
>>
>> Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi
>
> I would not say that your chroot setup is typical. Or common.
I tend to believe it becomes less and less truth.
> I would suggest creating your own empty apache2 package with version
> 9999, which you will install in this chrooted environment.
Yes, I think I'll do that, but I'm sure such hack isn't what we want to
advise in Debian in general.
>
>> Also, it's very surprising to see that we have dependencies for web
>> servers, but most of the time*not* for mysql-server, which is as much
>> needed in order to run these applications. I really don't understand the
>> logic behind this.
>
> Because mysql-server can (and actually very often) is located on
> different machine.
>
> Mirek
I was expecting an answer like that (and was waiting for it). THANKS ! :)
That's what I don't get! I think using a remote MySQL is as uncommon as
a chrooted CGI environment. If we push for Apache / $web-server being
pulled so that $web-app would work out of the box with all needed
dependencies, then we should apply the same reasoning to the MySQL
server. There's no logic at all here.
Cheers,
Thomas
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