Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www Being Retired

[Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>]

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Hi Doug,

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:48, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> I'm actually the maintainer of a couple of Apache modules (currently not
> included in Portage but shortly I'll look to include them when I
> stablize them a bit more) that I have the codebase support both Apache 1
> and Apache 2 through a mess of #DEFINE and ./configure but I did that to
> make it easier for users. 

Please make sure you add yourself to the apache herd when you commit these 
modules, and that you list yourself as primary maintainer in the 
metadata.xml.

> With this scheme the package would have to 
> appear in two catagories under the same name and it would conflict with
> the other one and provide an ugly mess. 

Yes, the package would have to appear in two categories.  The common parts of 
the ebuild can be moved into an eclass.  I'm not sure what conflict you think 
will arise.  All mods that support both apache1 and apache2 should install 
into SLOT=1 for apache1 and SLOT=2 for apache2.

> Heck.... every package... like 
> emerge mod_perl wouldn't even work.. it'd give you an ugly message
> saying which one? www-apache1/mod-perl or www-apache2/mod-perl... Not
> ideal in my book. There's got to be a better way about this.

You'd only get that message if you typed 'emerge mod_perl'.  If you typed 
'emerge www-apache1/mod_perl', then you wouldn't get the message.

As I say, I'm open to suggestions.

Best regards,
Stu
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