mdevour
09-07-2006, 07:25 PM
I'm trying to get my feet wet with doing updates and figuring out the repository system.
I'd like to browse the packages list for the backports repository, but how? The 'Packages' link on the backports.org site goes to an unimplemented page. There doesn't seem to be any way in Synaptic to view stuff sorted by repository, either.
Opening http://www.backports.org/debian/ in a browser window, I get a directory display. I've found what looks to be the package repository under /debian/pool/ ...
Looking for PHP options, I look in... /debian/pool/main/p and scroll down through the list to stuff that starts with 'php...' and find a directory for php5. Everything in there appears to be for php5 version 5.1.4-0.1.
Going back to Synaptic, I see that it's also listed there, and the fact it comes from backports is only indicated by a) the lack (in this case) of the debian swirl in the second column, and by the 'bpo-2' in the "latest version" column.
So it appears that the newest version of php4 I can get from my current sources list (Sarge and backports) is the 4.3.10-16 that I installed when I updated to Sarge the other day.
This is not quite new enough for me to run the latest vBulletin release, which requires PHP 4.4.2 or 5.1.2 or later.
Going to the debian.org site and using their facilities for searching the package directories, I see the latest version of PHP in 'testing' is 4.4.2-1.1, which is good enough to meet vBulletin's minimum requirement of 4.4.2 or newer.
But rather than adding testing to my sources list, I might be better off installing the backport of 5.1.4-0.1 that satisfies vBulletin's other requirement for 5.1.2 or later, which I should be able to do using Synaptic quite simply.
So is there anything else I ought to be thinking about or that I got wrong in all the above?
Is that the best way to view the backports repository, in the absence of other facilities on the backports web site?
Given the above, am I (probably) right that I should just go to php5?
Thanks,
Mike D.
I'd like to browse the packages list for the backports repository, but how? The 'Packages' link on the backports.org site goes to an unimplemented page. There doesn't seem to be any way in Synaptic to view stuff sorted by repository, either.
Opening http://www.backports.org/debian/ in a browser window, I get a directory display. I've found what looks to be the package repository under /debian/pool/ ...
Looking for PHP options, I look in... /debian/pool/main/p and scroll down through the list to stuff that starts with 'php...' and find a directory for php5. Everything in there appears to be for php5 version 5.1.4-0.1.
Going back to Synaptic, I see that it's also listed there, and the fact it comes from backports is only indicated by a) the lack (in this case) of the debian swirl in the second column, and by the 'bpo-2' in the "latest version" column.
So it appears that the newest version of php4 I can get from my current sources list (Sarge and backports) is the 4.3.10-16 that I installed when I updated to Sarge the other day.
This is not quite new enough for me to run the latest vBulletin release, which requires PHP 4.4.2 or 5.1.2 or later.
Going to the debian.org site and using their facilities for searching the package directories, I see the latest version of PHP in 'testing' is 4.4.2-1.1, which is good enough to meet vBulletin's minimum requirement of 4.4.2 or newer.
But rather than adding testing to my sources list, I might be better off installing the backport of 5.1.4-0.1 that satisfies vBulletin's other requirement for 5.1.2 or later, which I should be able to do using Synaptic quite simply.
So is there anything else I ought to be thinking about or that I got wrong in all the above?
Is that the best way to view the backports repository, in the absence of other facilities on the backports web site?
Given the above, am I (probably) right that I should just go to php5?
Thanks,
Mike D.