Re: [gentoo-dev] apache.eclass proposed

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Sunday 08 June 2003 21:45, Robin H.Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 06:12:21AM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > After writing a net-www/ ebuild it seemed apparent to me that we are
> > going to need an apache.eclass. A quick find in portage reveals quite a
> > few independent ebuilds all needing the basic functionality that could
> > be provided by an apache.eclass
>
> I agree that having this would be worthwhile, however it has been said
> higher up before that /home/httpd/htdocs would be where things were
> installed.
>
> > syntactically perfect the idea is what matters..
> > I have attached an apache.eclass that I welcome your input/feedback on.
> > While it may not be syntactically perfect for the apache2 part its the
> > idea that we get this out there and start talking about one that
> > matters.
>
> A few problems with this.
> 1. What about people that have both installed? I actually have an open
> bug for mod_php about this, and I'm trying to decide on a workable
> solution. Presently I'm leaning towards an enviroment variable
> 'FORCE_APACHE=1|2' that overrides any detection routines, for the
> special case of people that have both.

This is what the apache2 use variable is supposed to do. At least, as far as I 
know.

>
> 2. All of the functions start misbehaving when you have multiple
> instances of the User/Group/DocumentRoot configuration directives.
>
> 3. The 'newdepend  virtual/glibc sys-apps/gawk sys-apps/grep'
> is questionable.
> newdepend is definately correct for the apache install,
> however the others shouldn't be required at runtime.

I agree with both points.

Paul

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