[Sysadmin] Migrating to ServerMatrix

[William Anderson]

David A. Ulevitch wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> The best thing to do is compile your own apache and make an actual 
> .deb.  If you don't want to do that, do the equivs so that you aren't 
> running commands in dpkg (or apt) to get it to ignore dependency 
> issues....that's a bad road to start walking down.

I've never had a problem with meeting dependencies in over a year of running 
a self-compiled apache+php+mod_ssl.

> Also, regarding backports, I meant that I dislike backports packaged by 
> others...

Whereas I've found the packages from backports.org are well done and work 
well.  Like I said, I didn't say "let's use them for everything", just key 
packages here and there that are particularly antiquated in woody.

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