[Typo3-debian] gdlib & imagemagick

[Klaus Holler]

Hi Jordan,

On Saturday 05 June 2004 23:23, Jordan van Bergen wrote:
> I have ordered a new 19" 1U server with the new SATA harddrives.
> For "on the fly image" generation I still need the STABLE woody
> debian distribution as far as I know. If not please let me know. Is
> it possible to use a fully working GDLib & ImageMagick under a
> testing/unstable linux debian distribution to be used by TYPO3?
>
> I ask this as I'm not sure stable version will support SATA drives
> by the standard stable kernels. I don't know how to compile other /
> newer kernel versions. If stable doesn't support SATA harddrives I
> can't use it on our new server. I have to use the unstable/testing
> version to make sure SATA drives are supported but I will lose "on
> the fly image generation" by GDLib (broken) and ImageMagick.

just to get a new _kernel_ you do not have to change to the whole 
debian testing/unstable distribution; the kernel is rather 
independent from the distribution that is running on top of it.

IIRC the debian release policy (ref. www.debian.org FAQ), you only see 
old kernel images in the stable(woody) distribution, because at the 
date when woody was release this was the latest (stable) kernel image 
available.

You can install a debian kernel image from testing or sid but still 
stay with woody - at least the 2.4.x series will definitely work.
You either manually download or use "apt pinning", refer to the apt 
howto for details on how to selectively use packages from 
sid/testing, I think the keyword was "mixing distributions"

Regards, 
Klaus

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Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Holler <gmx.at after kho4l@>