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On Sunday 10 April 2005 4:55 pm, Brian Jackson wrote: |
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> How about not breaking apache? |
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We did not break apache, we broke *binary compatibility* within apache. |
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Are you aware of *why* we decided to break binary compatibility? |
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Well, if not, I can say we did so to provide LFS to the end-users. |
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You might not need it, but for sure, others will be very happy about. So, |
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please before just asking this, also consider the benifits from it. |
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Of course, we did not wanna push nearly-everyones little blindly executed |
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`emerge -uvD world` into hell. But everyone makes mistakes, so including me. |
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sorry for that, though, we got almost every complain fixed already. That's |
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why we're requesting for testing, for being sure, going stable won't shoot |
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anyone into his foot again. |
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Finally, the eclass updates have been a BIG must to simplify maintaince in a |
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long term. So, we could of course have introduced just yet another eclass |
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resisting parallel to the old one - just to have worked around this breakage |
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as well. Yeah, we learn all the time :) |
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> I was a little beyond pissed when I had |
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> to sit there for 2 hours trying to figure out why my apache was broken, |
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> and who was going to get put on my list of being kicked in the junk. |
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> Just for some stupid config file changes. |
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does it work now? when did you upgrade? what problems did you run in? please |
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feedback us. That's what we was calling for ;-) |
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> I find it very hard to believe |
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> you guys couldn't come up with a better way to do it. Even if that means |
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> doing evil stuff in one of the stages that isn't sandboxed. |
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We thought about doing so but decided against. At least my reason was, because |
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this would be a bloody hell and a no-go in a garrantied clean config merge. |
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I advice everyone to configure their new apache files (httpd.conf for |
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commonapache/apache.conf) from scratch. |
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Regards, |
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Christian Parpart. |
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