Apt dependency hell
Roger H. Goun
roger at bcah.com
Wed Nov 29 14:23:41 EST 2006
We're back in business. We hand-edited /var/lib/dpkg/available to
eliminate MySQL 4.1 dependencies, hand-installed an up-to-date
mysql-common deb snarfed from another dapper system, apt-get installed
the rest of the current MySQL packages, and enabled MySQL in PHP5. Simple.
Going back to 4.1 would have required installing from source. Dapper's
repository no longer contains a compatible mysql-common.
Apt still thinks we have the wrong mysql-common installed. Sigh.
The irony is that our apps appear to work fine on MySQL 5.
-- Roger
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