more on debian package...

[Marc Slemko <ma...@worldgate.com>]

this is "1.3b3-10" as they call it.

For some odd reason, they distribute it with all the results of running
Configure, ie. Makefiles etc.

They include a file with their own paths, which I like:

--- apache-1.3b3.orig/src/modules/debian/debian_apache.h
+++ apache-1.3b3/src/modules/debian/debian_apache.h
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#ifndef DEBIAN_H
+#define DEBIAN_H
+
+/* Time-stamp: <97/11/12 02:45:40 root> */
+
+/* defines for httpd */
+
+#define HTTPD_ROOT "/etc/apache"
+#define DOCUMENT_LOCATION "/var/www"
+#define DEFAULT_USER "#65534"
+#define DEFAULT_GROUP "#65534"
+#define DEFAULT_PATH "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin"
+#define DEFAULT_LOCKFILE "/var/run/accept.lock"
+#define SUEXEC_BIN "/usr/lib/apache/suexec"
+#define SERVER_SUBVERSION "Debian/GNU"
[...]

We should really provide support for something like this in the 
distributed version.

For some reason, they change:

-Rule PARANOID=no
+Rule PARANOID=yes

They go crazy adding nearly every module.  Yea, they are dynamically
loaded but I'm not sure I see the point.

Include a buildmark.c.rej:

--- apache-1.3b3.orig/src/buildmark.c.rej
+++ apache-1.3b3/src/buildmark.c.rej
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+***************
+*** 0 ****
+--- 1 ----
++ const char SERVER_BUILT[] = "Mon Nov 24 23:41:56 EST 1997";


Note sure what this refers to:

+  * Updated patch to prevent denial-of-service vulnerability (#16468) --
+    previous patch could cause malloc-related problems.

did they foolishly stick some bogus patch in there for a while?

Re: more on debian package...

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Marc Slemko wrote:

> Note sure what this refers to:
> 
> +  * Updated patch to prevent denial-of-service vulnerability (#16468) --
> +    previous patch could cause malloc-related problems.
> 
> did they foolishly stick some bogus patch in there for a while?

Yeah they had some thing in there a while back, I mentioned it here and
asked them to remove it.  I forget what it was though.  This may be that.

Dean