If anyone really cares, I have a mod_perl rpm built at
http://www.carumba.com/rpms/. It really is not that hard to do. Solaris
packaging is much more of a pain in the butt.
--Jauder
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, David Harris wrote:
>
> Young, Geoffrey S wrote:
> > Thus, it might be worth mentioning that RPMs are a _bad_ idea for
> > those just getting into mod_perl. That is, unless others have been more
> > successful that I...
>
> I've got mod_perl running just fine with my own Apache package and RedHat's
> mod_perl RPM. I understand that this keeps me from being able to use some stuff
> like request chaining, but I've not had a need for it. I've also stayed away
> from any mod_perl development environments (Embperl, Mason, whatver) and just
> wrote the handlers all myself.
>
> I'm going to package all of my work up today into RPMS and publish them out to
> the production servers, so I'm wondering if I should make my own mod_perl and
> Apache RPM or stick with what I have working. I keep hearing that RPM's and
> mod_perl are evil, but personally everything installed and worked without a
> hitch.
>
> Oh, I remember that I had some trouble compiling libapreq, but copying a few
> mod_perl header files into the system solved that without too much pain.
>
> A while ago in his "sourcegarden plug" thread Stas wrote:
> > Jim, one of the "services" we _want_ to provide at mod_perl Source Garden
> > (modperl.sourcegarden.org) is prebuilded mod_perl RPMs in its various
> > configurations and for mainly used platforms. Taken that we are only a few
> > folks who actually contributing to this project, this item is not on the
> > top of our priorities.
> >
> > I wonder if you or someone else may want to step in, and to start creating
> > correctly prebuilded SRPMs and RPMs, and if later feel that it's not
> > challenging (which I've found quite challenging, YMMV), someone else will
> > pick the falling flag. But it's definitely a good way to learn creating
> > RPMs which are very usefull, contributing back to our community, (and
> > fighting our mutual enemy :)
>
> I'm basically saying that I could do this and put together some mod_perl+Apache
> and libapreq RPM's today.. but I'm just wondering if it's really needed.
>
> - David Harris
> Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
>
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