Re: Installing PHP4
"No, I don't care about version numbers per se, but between mod_ssl for
Apache 1.3.26 and the current one for Apache 1.3.28 there have been several
bugfixes and one security fix, so why would anyone install the old one that
has bugs and security problems, especially when the package is a security
feature???"
Notice that the libapache-mod-ssl packege is from security section.
Meaning - it has all the recent security related bugs *fixed*.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/non-us/libapache-mod-ssl.html
That's the idea of stable - stability & security. Of course you don't have
the most recent softwarem but that usually worth it.
Regards,
Lior Kaplan
Webmaster@Guides.co.il
http://www.Guides.co.il
Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Wicks" <dennisw@cdg.ws>
To: <debian-s390@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Installing PHP4
>
> Silly me! I thought it would be named mod_ssl!
> No hits on debian.org for anything by that name!
>
> No, I don't care about version numbers per se, but between mod_ssl
> for Apache 1.3.26 and the current one for Apache 1.3.28 there have
> been several bugfixes and one security fix, so why would anyone
> install the old one that has bugs and security problems, especially
> when the package is a security feature???
>
> I will install libapache-mod-ssl and see how that works.
>
> As for getting modules from anywhere but stable, I have no
> idea how to do that!
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
>
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> Matt Zimmerman
> <mdz@debian.or To:
debian-s390@lists.debian.org
> g> cc:
> Sent by: Matt Subject: Re: Installing PHP4
> Zimmerman
> <mdz@alcor.net
> >
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> 09/18/2003
> 01:40 PM
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> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply, but, what I really started on was installing
> > mod_ssl. No package for that.
>
> Er...where did you look? It's been in Debian for about four years now.
>
> cthulhu:[~] apt-cache search mod_ssl
> libapache-mod-ssl - Strong cryptography (HTTPS support) for Apache
> libapache-mod-ssl-doc - Documentation for Apache module mod_ssl
>
> > the deb pkg for apache is too far back level for the latest mod_ssl that
> > contains "Important bugfixes."
> >
> > So, I installed apache by hand.
> >
> > Then, I'd like to have php to experiment with, and the package is
> > 4.1.2 while the latest stable release is 4.3.3 and anyway the
> > package probably won't install correctly with the hand-installed
> > apache!
> >
> > The upshot is that I have yet to be able to do any useful installs
> > or upgrades from packages, rpms, etc. They are generally too far
> > back-level to have the features I need.
>
> If version numbers are more important to you than a stable and
> well-integrated system, then you will always have this problem. The fact
> is, you're bypassing the value that Debian releases provide, which is to
> make all of these things work together.
>
> If you need more current versions (for specific features and fixes, not
for
> higher numbers), then you can always get these, in packaged and integrated
> form, from unstable.
>
> --
> - mdz
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