From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11964 invoked by uid 1002); 8 Nov 2003 20:52:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 17477 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2003 20:52:32 -0000 From: "Corey Crawford" To: "Gentoo Dev" Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:52:35 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds and the changes people make to them X-Archives-Salt: 3399ac37-5bb9-4560-bb7e-4c5370703220 X-Archives-Hash: bb4f16a7ea6fe319d0dcf83d85efa33c O.K., I'm a huge fan of ebuilds and the whole portage system. But: who decides what changes to make in these ebuilds? I'm really getting sick and tired of upgrading packages only to find that someone decided to change the ./configure options the ebuild uses. I shouldn't have to worry about my Apache server not working after an upgrade! This is the latest example: The '--with-suexec-docroot' configure option for the SuExec module in Apache2's ebuild to something other than all previous Apache2 ebuilds. This was done in apache-2.0.48-r1. _Why?_ This broke all of the CGI scripts on my virtual hosts until it was noticed and corrected the next day. I shouldn't have to go into every ebuild and make sure someone didn't change paths on me before doing (what is suppose to be) a simple upgrade. [/rant] Has anyone considered moving any 'configure' options to another file? Moving the 'configure' options to another file would alleviate a lot of problems. This would allow those of us who have working systems to continue to have functioning systems even if the default values for those configure options have changed. Do-able? Comments? --- Corey Crawford ccrawford@seventh.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list