Yves Goergen <nospam.list@unclassified.de> writes: > i have seen some time ago (as i was quite new to debian/linux) that > debian packages are far not current or partially even over some years > old. so i have decided for myself, to install only some uncritical > packages like gcc/compilers and some other things like bash or > zip. everything else, server related stuff like apache, php, mysql, > exim (still 3.x!!), i'll download the latest source and compile it by > myself. works pretty fine so far. and i have the advantage to > configure some things as i need them, that only can be set at compile > time. > > and, even if there will be php4 support for apache 2 (i'm still with > apache 1, because of a necessary setuid module) by debian, i guess > you wouldn't really want to use it. seems, they'll not update php > before php5. i mean, php 4.1.2 (from debian 3.0 stable) is - how old? > - at least a year now. and since then, many new useful features have > beed added and quite some bugs were fixed. (ok, there came new bugs, > but hey, that's progress of software. if we never update anything, we > could have stayed with our 486s!) I can understand your point but mine is different in which I _only_ want debian packages on those systems. Why do I need a PHP4 for my Apache2 server is related to subversion which is provided with a apache2 dev_svn module. I know I don't need PHP for this but my problem is I also use a piece of software called papaan which does a heavy use of XML and PHP. I don't want to have 2 different versions of my Apache here and so I want to migrate all stuff running under Apache 1.x to Apache2 and so forth I need a PHP4 version for it. That said I have read into the TODO.Debian there will be a Apache2 support but I didn't see anyrhing about this since ages so ... What I am sure is I only want to install Debian related stuff on my 2 systems and don't want to have to build software from sources. If I wanted to have from-source-softwate, I would have chose something else than Debian :) zeDek -- Welcome to your future with Microsoft; where your every action will be regulated by computers you do not control.
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