On Sunday 10 August 2003 23:18, poeml@cmdline.net wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 12:09:19AM +0200, Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
[...] My aim when writing to the list is because I thought there was something wrong in the dependencies easy to fix, and just I wanted to point at this problem.
Then I was really misunderstanding you. I thought you were waiting for a fix. Thanks for pointing it out!
To explain the matter, the package dependency on the apache package that exists in the mod_php4 package is too picky, it depends on the major module magic number as well as on the minor one. A dependency on the major number should actually suffice, but this is an attemt to play safe. PHP is a very complex module, and normally apache is not updated to a higher version within a given distribution. For apache2, I have made the dependency a bit looser, because apache2 has an inbuilt sanity check for loading of modules that do not match the major module magic number anyway.
I've installed the src.rpms for apache and mod_php4 this morning. Then I read the specs files. They are really complicated. In a non production PC I installed apache-1.3.28 with apt-get and it worked, but at the cost of losing mod_php4. I couldn't install mod_php4 in anyway I tried, the magic number module dependency appeared .
That's why I said you _can_ use the package. I beleive it's not worth the trouble rebuilding the PHP (and others) packages, just to have packages that install 100% cleanly. I basically know that it works. I can promise you that _if_ I had doubts about it I _would_ rebuild the packages, see if it helps, and investigate further.
I'm pretty sure of this ;-). Regards Guillermo -- Guillermo Ballester Valor registered linux user #117181 gbv@oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN