Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: "Michael Stewart (vericgar)" <vericgar@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] idea for apache2 ebuild
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:24:36
Message-Id: 44883F5C.8050002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] idea for apache2 ebuild by David CHANIAL
1 David CHANIAL wrote:
2 > Le Jeudi 08 Juin 2006 16:39, Michael Stewart (vericgar) a écrit :
3 >> For now, if you need to change those variables, you need to move the
4 >> ebuild to an overlay and modify it to your needs. In the future you
5 >> won't have to.
6 >
7 > i understand,
8 >
9 > but we are not speaking for a feature now, juste for an environnement variable
10 > which will help many admin to dont have to maintain apche in overlay
11 >
12 > and
13 >
14 > the "noobs" see no differences
15 >
16 > i post a bug.
17 >
18
19 There is already a bug for this issue. http://bugs.gentoo.org/66397
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21 Environment variables are problematic because they are not stored and
22 remembered when portage upgrades the package. You will have to set the
23 environment variable every time manually for it to work. suexec-config
24 is the better, and correct, solution. If you are unable to wait until it
25 is backported to 1.3 or 2.0, your best option is to use an overlay.
26
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28 Michael Stewart vericgar@g.o
29 Gentoo Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~vericgar
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