You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to apreq-dev@httpd.apache.org by Bojan Smojver <bo...@rexursive.com> on 2004/04/02 02:49:03 UTC
RPM spec file for apreq2
I've been playing with making an RPM spec file for apreq2 (for easy
install on Fedora). Would you be interested in including it in the
distro, so that people can simply do "rpmbuild -tb tarball" and have the
whole thing ready? I would also supply a small apreq.conf file that
would go into /etc/httpd/conf.d, as per Fedora convention.
--
Bojan
Re: RPM spec file for apreq2
Posted by Bojan Smojver <bo...@rexursive.com>.
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 11:27, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Bojan, your mailserver blocks my posts as spam
Sorry, fixed now. Sometimes automation doesn't work as expected :-(
> Perhaps I wasn't clear. I'm all for having the spec as it'll be useful for
> other distro's. All I've suggested is that libapreq's source is probably not
> the most suitable place for it.
No, I understand. Anything that's distro specific should be in the
distro, not the vanilla source. I can easily put the RPMS on my own FTP
site. I'll let you know how I go and if you guys think it's worth a
link, others will be able to find it. I'm sure Red Hat folk are plenty
capable of whipping up a much better spec file when they decide to
include apreq2 in Fedora/RHEL.
The whole thing started when I released my own mod_spin (which depends
on apreq2) as an RPM. I realised that people that do things RPM way
would want to do apreq2 as an RPM, so yesterday I had a go at the C part
of the whole thing. Bar one minor detail (apxs install, which I simply
grepped out from the Makefile) it worked like a charm.
Don't worry, all is good.
--
Bojan
Re: RPM spec file for apreq2
Posted by Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>.
Bojan, your mailserver blocks my posts as spam
> No worries.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I'm all for having the spec as it'll be useful for
other distro's. All I've suggested is that libapreq's source is probably not
the most suitable place for it.
__________________________________________________________________
Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker
http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org
mailto:stas@stason.org http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com
http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
Re: RPM spec file for apreq2
Posted by Bojan Smojver <bo...@rexursive.com>.
No worries.
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 11:14, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Bojan Smojver wrote:
> > I've been playing with making an RPM spec file for apreq2 (for easy
> > install on Fedora). Would you be interested in including it in the
> > distro, so that people can simply do "rpmbuild -tb tarball" and have the
> > whole thing ready? I would also supply a small apreq.conf file that
> > would go into /etc/httpd/conf.d, as per Fedora convention.
>
> -0.
>
> Most likely it won't be compatible with other distros and then people will
> start complaining that it doesn't work for them, creating unnecessary
> confusion and developer time overhead.
>
> IMHO, the best solution is for you to upload it somewhere in the permanent
> place and have the apreq website link to it. You may want to provide
> source/binary rpms there just as well.
>
> We do that for mod_perl and it works pretty well:
> http://perl.apache.org/download/binaries.html#RedHat_Linux
> in fact we would be happy to link to them from the modperl site (That exact
> url) as well.
>
> Also check who is the current maintainer of the apache2 modules with RedHat
> and submit your spec to them. That way everybody in the RH camp will have it
> without needing to look for it. But you know that already :)
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker
> http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org
> mailto:stas@stason.org http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com
> http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
--
Bojan
Re: RPM spec file for apreq2
Posted by Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>.
Bojan Smojver wrote:
> I've been playing with making an RPM spec file for apreq2 (for easy
> install on Fedora). Would you be interested in including it in the
> distro, so that people can simply do "rpmbuild -tb tarball" and have the
> whole thing ready? I would also supply a small apreq.conf file that
> would go into /etc/httpd/conf.d, as per Fedora convention.
-0.
Most likely it won't be compatible with other distros and then people will
start complaining that it doesn't work for them, creating unnecessary
confusion and developer time overhead.
IMHO, the best solution is for you to upload it somewhere in the permanent
place and have the apreq website link to it. You may want to provide
source/binary rpms there just as well.
We do that for mod_perl and it works pretty well:
http://perl.apache.org/download/binaries.html#RedHat_Linux
in fact we would be happy to link to them from the modperl site (That exact
url) as well.
Also check who is the current maintainer of the apache2 modules with RedHat
and submit your spec to them. That way everybody in the RH camp will have it
without needing to look for it. But you know that already :)
__________________________________________________________________
Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker
http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org
mailto:stas@stason.org http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com
http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com