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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:07:03 -0500
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Subject: Re: commercial support
From: Eric Covener <covener@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Victor J. Orlikowski
<victor.j.orlikowski@alumni.duke.edu> wrote:
> To my mind, at least on RPM-based distributions, that sounds like a set of
> prefixed RPM packages, that install into a non-default system location, and
> that can be built from APR-Util/APR/httpd source trees.
>
> To be a bit more specific: a buildrpm.sh that takes a templated spec file,
> does the needed configure and make, and drops out a set of packages that
> would install things under /opt/local.
>
> That about sound about right, Jeff?

I'm not sure there's much value in this going forward (as opposed to
say 18 months ago) compared to say the doc or evangelism efforts
advocated in Jeff's other thread.

* The 2014 releases of RedHat, SLES, and Ubuntu have 2.4.
* There are already options for older RHEL (epel, although it doesn't
seem to be servied & RedHat Software Collections) and older Ubuntu (at
least 1 PPA)
* Users who can't avail of these, or the source itself, are unlikely
to move to some even more unusual way to get httpd

-- 
Eric Covener
covener@gmail.com