NYCPHP Meetup

[Anthony Wlodarski]

This is correct.  If you ever have questions about tasksel packages as part of a task execute the following: "tasksel --task-packages mail-server". For example I used the mail-server task and it gave me a list of packages it was going to remove.

dovecot-imapd
procmail
dovecot-common
libpth20
postfix
libgpgme11
libmysqlclient16
mutt
ssl-cert
bsd-mailx
dovecot-pop3d
libpq5
mysql-common

As you can see it would remove mysql cli and client libraries (as with Daniel's use case) which are also shared with lamp-server.  Testing you could execute "tasksel --task-packages lamp-server" and you will see the conflicting packages.  As a fall back then you manually go one by one with "sudo apt-get remove".  Which is still a relatively painless task.

Tomorrow I am going to get on Ubuntu Launchpad and add a feature request for tasksel to consider dependencies from other tasks installed on the system and allow you to exclude or include cross referenced packages.

-Anthony

________________________________
From: Daniel Convissor <danielc at analysisandsolutions.com>
To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 10:21:38 AM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] MAMP or XAMPP ?

Hi Anthony:

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:11:09AM -0400, Anthony Wlodarski wrote:
> Tasksel is a package
> management tool for the meta packages that point to the most recent version
> of the software that exists in the stack.  That way you don't have to piece
> together PHP5, MySQL, and Apache and their latest versions.

While tasksel is very handy, one must be very careful when using it.  
One time when hacking around on my then new Ubuntu 9.10 server box I 
chose to use tasksel to uninstall the mail server.  To my surprise, it 
also removed my MySQL install.

--Dan

-- 
T H E   A N A L Y S I S   A N D   S O L U T I O N S   C O M P A N Y
            data intensive web and database programming
                http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/
4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232  v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409
_______________________________________________
New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List
http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation



      
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20100510/e9d0c7a1/attachment.html>