From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EEYyB-00071J-07 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:02:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8BKtiif021669; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:55:44 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8BKtgvW031963 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:55:43 GMT Received: from [192.168.123.141] (c-24-19-159-167.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[24.19.159.167]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005091120595701300poroee>; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:59:57 +0000 Message-ID: <43249B13.90602@munat.com> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:01:07 -0700 From: Ben Munat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Stabilization of new-style Apache References: <431F9856.2060105@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <431F9856.2060105@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c3d8afa7-8bac-4fa0-976c-17d4c1102c92 X-Archives-Hash: fc19b8e8b0a755a3aa37e7eadbeb90f0 Well, well... yet another false alarm... Indeed, a new ebuild of Apache was unmasked today. However, it is not -- yet again -- this major re-working of the apache layout that we've been hearing about for over nine months now. Sigh. b Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: > The Gentoo Apache Team is pleased to announce the stabilizing of package > updates that have been in the works for over a year. Some of the major > changes include: > > - New configuration and configuration locations to more closely match > upstream and reduce confusion for users coming from other > distributions. > - Modules now use a centralized eclass that builds, installs, and > displays standard information on enabling the module. This allows > easier maintenance of existing modules, and allows us to more rapidly > develop ebuilds for modules that are not yet in the tree. > - Expanded USE flags to let you choose which MPM is compiled. > - A new gentoo-webroot that will eventually provide a gentoo-themed > icon-set, error documents, and default website. This has been put in > it's own package, and includes a USE-flag to not install the > gentoo-webroot into /var/www/localhost - useful if you put your own > website there. > - And much more, including the fixing of many many bugs. > > These changes will stabilized on Sunday, September 18th. These changes > have been throughly tested and given a thumbs up by many many users. > They also allow you to use the new php (including support for php5) > ebuilds when they become fully available. > > Because of these changes and improvements, when you upgrade to the new > revision of Apache, you will need to take care of some things. These are > fully documented in our Upgrading Apache document [1], but in > summary, this is what you will need to do: > > - Merge any customizations that you have made to the Apache > configuration into the new configuration at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf > (The configuration file location has changed). Note that the init > script for apache checks for a configuration in the old location and > refuses to start if you haven't moved/removed it - this is to avoid > the possibility of moving to a configuration that isn't right for > your machine. > - Update any modules that you used to revisions that support the new > eclass. Older modules will not work due to location changes. > - Restart Apache > > We have done our best to make it easy to migrate, but if you have > problems, feel free to visit us in #gentoo-apache on irc.freenode.net or > on our mailing list gentoo-web-user@gentoo.org and we'll be glad to > help. > > Thanks, > The Gentoo Apache Team > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/apache-upgrading.xml > -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list