On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:46:30PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:23:02AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote:
> | On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:31:50AM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> | > in looking at the dependencies for PHP4, apache-common is
> | > listed twice, once with  apache-common (>= 1.3.22) and
> | > the other apache-common (<< 1.3.22.1) 
> | > my current version (sid) is apache-common 1.3.23-1 

> | If you want, you should be able to apt-get source and
> | rebuild it with dependancies on the current apache.

> i thought that was fixed at some point! here's what i did: find the deb
Fixed how? The maintainer hasn't rebuilt php4 since apache 1.3.23
entered Debian... And those _are_ the correct forward looking dependancies.
> for php4... somewhere in var/ where apt stores it's cache.... then, use
/var/cache/apt/archives/php4*.deb
> dpkg to install php4 like so:

> dpkg -i --ignore-depends=apache-common php4.....deb

[snip]
> my whole point of rambling is that the
> "--ignore-depends=apache-common" has never caused a problem for me.

Unless apache decides to change it's interface in some subtle way
that breaks the php4 package. :-)

And of course, by recompiling, you don't have to worry about apt-get
noticing the broken dependancies. ;-)

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