The following reply was made to PR config/3127; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Subject: Re: config/3127: An Apache Offical rpm
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:46:26 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> One: That you make an extra make install option that does not set suexec to
> root.
> This is so that when I or any other person that trys a make not as root
> they do not get errors. Grant this only happens with suexec enabled.
But not installing suexec as root means it doesn't work. So, when you want
suexec it should be installed correctly. When you can't install it correctly,
you have to life with this fact and not use --enable-suexec. That's why we've
added this APACI option and made it not the default. When one is able to
install suexec he can enable it. So, IMHO it's not reasonable to change this
here.
> Two: What I do right now is configure and make apache as a normal user. And
> then
> as root type make install. Until last night I would have to edit the
> httpd.conf
> file to change the port, but last night I found out that you can type "make
> install conf_port="80". But what I would like to request is that you add
> conf_user like you have conf_group so that at install time you can replace
> no only the port and the group but also the user! That is a one line change
> in
> the Makefile.tmpl file.
Seems like you didn't read the INSTALL as carefully as you should or I do not
understand your request correctly.
``Use the --without-confadjust option to explicitly disable some built
user/situation dependent adjustments to the config files (Group, Port,
ServerAdmin, ServerName, etc.). This is usually only interesting for
vendor package maintainers who wants to force the keeping of defaults.''
Isn't this what you want?
> Three: I would like you to add a rpm.spec file the root of your distro. This
> would standardize the apache rpm's that are out there!
>[...]
I'm not very familiar of RPM spec files, so cannot comment on it. But at
least I'm sure it isn't useful to include it directly to the distribution
root. A subdir like src/support/ is more appropriate for it, isn't it? OTOH
I'm not sure whether the Apache Group really should add such a spec file.
Because else we have to add SVR4 pkg files, FreeBSD ports, Debian dpkg files,
too. So, I don't think it's reasonable to include such a RPM spec file to the
official distribution. But you can place it on our FTP server under the
contrib/ section. There it would be fine.
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
