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Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: |
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> Michael Vince wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I just installed Gentoo on my laptop after having FreeBSD as my |
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>> desktop 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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>> |
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>> The main reason I am interested in Gentoo Linux was the fact I can |
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>> use a Java supplied from Sun as an alternative to some of the FreeBSD |
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>> native Java compiled via ports with Tomcat. I have servers running |
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>> under 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 |
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>> that being just 1.3.x or Apache 2.0.x and no Apache 2.2.x. |
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>> Apache 2.2.x has some great new features like a built in AJP module |
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>> for linking Tomcat and Apache together with out needing the external |
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>> mod_ajp module. |
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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 |
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>> should 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 |
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>> 15 Java choices, admittedly half of then being the Linux ones for use |
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>> via the Linux kernel emulation. |
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>> |
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>> I installed Gentoo on my laptop with a bit of excitement and was |
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>> going to start doing some benchmarks and testing with Apache 2.2 and |
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>> Tomcat 5.5 just to find I will have to start manually building it all |
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>> and manually installing it all my self. |
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>> My question is does any one have any idea of when Apache projects |
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>> such 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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> with a little searching: |
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> Apache 2.2 status: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114232#c9 |
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> Tomcat 5.5 status: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75224#c26 |
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I was reminded of this thread today when I saw that Apache 2.2 ebuild is |
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out, hardmasked: |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-www;name=apache |
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