For those who wonder why Redhat didn't update Apache 2.0 in distro 8.0 and 9.0, just read :
http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html
Apache httpd was an example that I happened to remember when writing that explanation - Apache is far from the worst offender to mix security updates with other changes in a new release ;)
Hi Mark,
I understand your concern, and also the quantity of works to release
all the related modules (php, mod_perl...), but there is many users
who need latest Apache 2.0 since they have to use extended functionnalities (ie mod_deflate logs) or because some modules
need them.
The problem we encountered in mod_jk was that in 2.0.40 there is
no support for apxs -q LIBTOOL and so users couldn't built mod_jk 1.2.4
under Redhat 8.0 or 9.0 (I sent a TRICK to tomcat-dev and tomcat-user lists to overcome this limitation).
I get a least one mail by day from happy users for my 'alternate apache rpm' provided at falsehope.com (apache 2.0.46 with mpm).
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/falsehope/home/gomez/apache2/apache2-2.0.46-1.7.2.i386.html
Regards
