Tim Uckun spake the following on 11/2/2006 4:09 PM:
After removing all the stuff that depends on apache (mod_python, mod_ssl, http_suexec, webalizer, subversion, etc.), the Apache supplied RPMs seem to install fine. Of course you wouldn't be using all the same patches and configs from the CentOS rpm version, and there's no guarantee it will work well with the provided libraries (it probably will provided they have all their requires in the spec file correct). If you don't need any functionality out of Apache other than what you are putting in yourself (rails, mongrel, mod_proxy_balance), this might work.
I didn't want to start down that path of uninstalling everything and then reinstalling them again. I was kind of hoping there would be a repository I could add to repos.d and then yum upgrade httpd.
I am afraid I don't have the time or the expertise to try and roll my own RPMs.
You might have to wait for Enterprise 5 (CentOS 5) for apache 2.2 if you don't want to fight. Shouldn't be more than a few months. You could play on Fedora Core 6, as I think that is what RHEL 5 will be based on.