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A couple of quick things that might make this tuto...

2010-01-30T22:00:31.033-08:00

A couple of quick things that might make this tutorial a bit easier (it's great!):

You can use `apt-get build-dep nginx` to install everything you need to compile nginx.

You can make dpkg-buildpackage not try to sign your package (no signing errors) if you pass the options `-us -uc` to it. So the full command is `dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot`

@Reza, I assume the Provides and Conflicts keys in...

2009-07-21T13:11:52.747-07:00

@Reza, I assume the Provides and Conflicts keys in the control file will manage this and should in theory only allow you to have one or the other.

Are you concerned with the binaries being replaced, the configs or both? Replacing the one package with the other should not affect your configs unless you uninstall the package with a purge option.

Hi, Thanks for the tutorial. I have one question ...

2009-07-21T08:04:11.938-07:00

Hi,

Thanks for the tutorial. I have one question though. What if I already have nginx installed? Would it automatically remove my old nginx (without Passenger ) installation, and automatically install nginx-passenger? Or shouuld i remove my current nginx first?

Thanks.