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Michael Vince wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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hi michael |
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> I just installed Gentoo on my laptop after having FreeBSD as my desktop |
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> for a long time. |
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> I felt Gentoo would be my best shot at using and enjoying a Linux |
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> distribution for my desktop, as Gentoo promises a lot of freedom and |
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> choice. |
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> All up its pretty darn good but I have to say I am a bit disappointed |
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> with the Tomcat/Apache/Java choices Gentoo portage has to offer. |
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> The main reason I am interested in Gentoo Linux was the fact I can use a |
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> Java supplied from Sun as an alternative to some of the FreeBSD native |
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> Java compiled via ports with Tomcat. I have servers running under |
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> Apache2.0.55 and Apache2.2.0 with Tomcat 5.5.x |
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> My main problems are there is not a full set of choices of Apache that |
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> being just 1.3.x or Apache 2.0.x and no Apache 2.2.x. |
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net-www/apache-2.2.0 is now in portage (since 2006-02-15). but make sure |
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to build dev-libs/apr with USE="ipv6", otherwise building of |
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net-www/apache-2.2.0 will fail. |
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> Apache 2.2.x has some great new features like a built in AJP module for |
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> linking Tomcat and Apache together with out needing the external mod_ajp |
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> module. |
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unfortunately i am a little bit disappointed because the module |
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mod_proxy_ajp is not being built, so i can't use this new feature to |
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connect to tomcat. i tried to modify the ebuild, but it didn't work. if |
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anyone has an idea -> tell me please. |
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> Secondly there is only Tomcat 5.0.x in portage, in FreeBSD there is |
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> Tomcat3,Tomcat4,Tomcat41, Tomcat5 and Tomcat55 |
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> I do have to admit I think I will be happy with even just 1 Java in |
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> Linux since I know it comes from Sun for Linux which I expecting should |
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> be of a good quality. Believe it or not but doing a 'cd |
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> /usr/ports/java/; ls | grep -c jdk" in FreeBSD returns a count of 15 |
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> Java choices, admittedly half of then being the Linux ones for use via |
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> the Linux kernel emulation. |
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> I installed Gentoo on my laptop with a bit of excitement and was going |
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> to start doing some benchmarks and testing with Apache 2.2 and Tomcat |
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> 5.5 just to find I will have to start manually building it all and |
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> manually installing it all my self. |
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> My question is does any one have any idea of when Apache projects such |
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> as Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.2 will be in portage? |
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> Regards, |
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> Mike |
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regards, |
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jan |
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