Fedorans,
I am the maintainer of the nginx package in Fedora and EPEL.
Currently I have two bug reports [1][2] open against nginx that ask for
the inclusion of 3rd party extensions into the nginx main package.
Unlike the Apache httpd, the nginx codebase does not allow modules to be
built out-of-tree. This means that any and all modules you would want to
use with nginx would have to be built against the same source tree using
the same configure arguments used to build the main nginx package In
fact, ideally together with the main nginx package.
This means introducing external codebases into the nginx build tree.
A few options as to how this could be addressed:
1. Bundle and ship the 3rd party modules in the main nginx package.
Debian does this [3]. Debian also has a team of maintainers for nginx.
In Fedora it is mainly me at this point.
It increases the burden to package nginx because now I also need to
track updates, CVEs and patches for these submodules and ensure they
build against whichever update we are packaging at any given time.
As I don't use any additional modules on my nginx installs I would not
be willing to test each and every module additionally to the main package.
2. Offer a module of the main package that includes all the modules
people may want.
This is essentially duplicating the effort of packaging nginx but this
way it wouldn't interfere with the main package too much. Also, this
means someone else could take care of it.
The question would then be: Do we do this for both the stable and
mainline branch?
3. Use the packaging method used in this [4] COPR
The method used here is simply to duplicate the building of nginx into
each module separately and at the end of the build process only fish out
the module file itself, plus any configuration and docs provided by the
module. This option is elegant in that it generates separate packages
and can be maintained in separate spec files but it requires all modules
to be rebuilt or updated together with any new nginx package that is
built as the modules would need to depend on the nginx package's NEVRA.
This would make updating nginx quite the pain, I assume.
4. Not do it at all.
As a compromise I could look to amend the current spec file to make it
obvious how to build additional modules into your own version of the
package. Anyone would then be free to maintain their own personal
repository (possibly on COPR) to override the official packages.
So I'd appreciate some input here as to what the best way forward would
be from a distribution engineering perspective.
Regards,
Felix
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1654698
[2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768317
[3]: https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx/-/tree/master/debian/modules
[4]: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mtorromeo/nginx-modules-el7/
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