Hi On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
One of my TU application proposals was updating apache package to 2.4. The 2.4 branch exists for 2 years, actively developed and is recommended by upstream. Taking into account that many distros moved to 2.4 already I do not expect serious problems with moving Arch to 2.4.
I would like to look at this issue. In addition to version bump I wan to cleanup the PKGBUILD file e.g. "itk" is an apache module now and we do not need to apply a huge pile of patches to apache sources - it can be a separate package 'mod_itk'.
So how can I update the apache package? I do not have access to [extra] so I see 2 ways to resolve the issue:
1) Move apache and its dependencies from [extra] to [community]. I update apache and rebuild mod_* packages.
2) I create apache24 and mod_itk modules and after some testing devs will move it to [extra], replace content of 'apache' and rebuild dependencies.
What is the preferred solution?
Here is my experience with updating Apache dependencies. I see that some popular third-party modules either have no development for years or do not want to update Apache2.4 at all. Following dependencies have no compilation problems with Apache2.4: mod_fcgid,mod_dnssd,mod_wsgi and recompilation was easy. There are few other mods in arch repos that took a while for me to figure out what to do: mod_fastcgi: The last release was made in 2007. The official version does not compile with Apache2.4. There are third-party patches that make it work. Both Debian and Gentoo use this version https://github.com/ByteInternet/libapache-mod-fastcgi mod_perl: 2 years back the developers said they work on Apache2.4 support but there no any official version with this work yet. Debian uses unreleased branch http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/branches/httpd24/ mod_mono: Another ancient mod that does not compile with Apache2.4. They have some development in their official repo https://github.com/mono/mod_mono but it is not released. The whole situation with popular third-party Apache modules that do not want to migrate to 2-years old release makes me a little bit depressed.