php5-cli, php5-cgi, libapache2-mod-php5 to provide php5

[Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar]

I've installed php5-cgi to run fast-cgi server. When I try to install some php applications, for example Squirrelmail or phpmyadmin, it's trying to install libapache2-mod-php5, and all these packages depend on php5 meta-package. How about providing php5 meta-package by php5-cli, php5-cgi and libapache2-mod-php5.

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:44:25AM -0000, Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar wrote:
> I've installed php5-cgi to run fast-cgi server. When I try to install
> some php applications, for example Squirrelmail or phpmyadmin, it's
> trying to install libapache2-mod-php5, and all these packages depend
> on php5 meta-package. How about providing php5 meta-package by
> php5-cli, php5-cgi and libapache2-mod-php5.

Squirrelmail's Depends includes: libapache2-mod-php4 |
libapache-mod-php4 | php4 | php4-cgi | libapache2-mod-php5 |
libapache-mod-php5 | php5-cgi | php5

phpmyadmin's Depends includes: libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache-mod-php5
| php5-cgi | php5 | libapache2-mod-php4 | libapache-mod-php4 | php4 |
php4-cgi

I.e. neither of them should pull in libapache2-mod-php5 if php5-cgi is
already there, and a quick test here says that that is so.

Which version of Ubuntu are you on?

--
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/

[Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar (dulmandakh)]

sorry I'm confused, it was phpldap admin.

Depends: apache2 | httpd, php5-ldap | php4-ldap, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5 | libapache2-mod-php4 | php4 (>= 4.1.0), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0

Why should we add such big number of dependancies rather than just provide php5? This bug seems not related to php5, but phpldapadmin. I'll file this bug.

[Henri Cook (henricook)]

Can you explain this better for the rest of us? Soren's initial bug seemed fairly clear but Dulmandakh's comment is a bit confusing - a summary perhaps?

[Ondřej Surý (ondrej)]

Certainly not a bug in php5 packaging:
Package: php5
[...]
Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.1-0ubuntu1) | php5-cgi (>= 5.2.1-0ubuntu1), php5-common (>= 5.2.1-0ubuntu1)
[...]

Reason why libapache2-mod-php5 wants to be installed is that it's listed first in phpldap admin dependencies.

As a quick fix install php5 package.

Then dependencies of phpldap admin should be fixed.

[Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar (dulmandakh)]

Yep. But it took some time to figure it out.