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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:59:26AM -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> I commented on the bug on changes I know of. I don't think we should get 
> into the business of repairing someone's configuration if it doesn't 
> work with a new version, especially with such a complex thing as 
> httpd.conf, so here's what I'd like to suggest.
> Firstly, I think apache22 is not necessary, as module writers seem to be 
> catching up 2.2. Secondly, we can change the apache2 spell to mark all 
> files in /etc/httpd as "configuration" (that's where most of the visible 
> changes are), which is not straight-forward but probably doable. This 
> will give us backup by sorcery. Finally, we upgrade the spell and keep 
> it in test a little longer.
> What do you think?

Sounds good to me. We can't make all updates work automagically, and I
expect anyone who's running important servers to hold those spells until
they have time to upgrade anyway.

> BTW, if you want to test the new version, cast httpd-dev.
> 
> Sergey.
> 
> David Kowis wrote:
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> >http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10405
> >
> >I wanted to bring this bug to the attention of the mailing list, as it
> >will affect almost everyone that uses Source Mage and has apache
> >running. The latest release of apache will likely require a rewrite of
> >the spell, as the configuration has been redone. Also, some modules have
> >changed names, so the existing on-disk config (/etc/httpd/*) will be
> >different. So I wanted to bring to the attention of everyone here:
> >Do we update the apache2 spell to this newer version, or have another
> >apache22 spell? The differences aren't as great as the 1.x to 2 changes,
> >but still different.
> >
> >  
> >
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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