Re: RPM packaging for httpd v2.0.53

Paul Querna wrote:

> I was looking at http://svn.apache.org/~minfrin/httpd-2.0.53-rpm.diff

Hmmm... the thinking was to require the official ASF released APR rpms, but this isn't actually necessary, the v0.9.5 seems fine.

> The patch also moves several files from bin to sbin (ab,ht*,logresolve).

The patch _stops_ moving several files from sbin to bin, instead keeping the files where httpd installed them in the first place instead of following the Redhat practice of moving them around.

Idea is to get the ASF released RPM to be as close to the ASF released httpd as possible. The ASF RPM should not try and do anything radically different from the ASF ./configure;make;make install.

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> The patch seems to be more than just changing httpd to use an external APR.

Exactly, the purpose of the patch is to make the spec file work, and the spec file was broken for a number of reasons. Due to many changes to both APR and the httpd build the spec file there does not build at the moment.

Regards,
Graham

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