On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 21:28 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
I certainly don't see packages in either dev.centos.org or centos.karan.org which is the places that I would check for something like this.
These packages have been requested a few times, but it's more an implementation issue than anything else. apache has a fair amount of stuff built against it, and it would require rebuilding all of those packages, which will then not work with the current apache.
The end result is you'd have httpd-2.0.52-x, and httpd-2.2-x, which would each have their own php builds, mod_perl builds, mod_auth-foo builds etc. It basically causes several packages to be built twice to accomodate one package, and it's been an effort vs demand thing.
Apache 2.2 rpm's for CentOS 4 (or RHEL 4) would seem to be something of interest to more than just you.
If more people are interested and pipe up, then it may be that the demand is enough to warrant a separate build for this. So far that hasn't been the case. Suggestions and support are always welcome.
---- FWIW - I am in a similar situation where I am running CentOS 4 and resorted to using fcgid for interaction with ruby on rails since Apache 2.2 and mod_proxy_balance hasn't been available to me. See the OP trying to implement rails/apache-2.2/mod_proxy_balancer/mongrel solution which is at the moment, the high performance solution - much more so than apache-2.0 or lighttpd with fcgid.
I would love to see Apache 2.2 packages (perhaps built against the PHP-5.x packages also in dev.centos.org) built but so far, that only makes 2 of us.
I should note though, that I anticipated simply upgrading this server to CentOS-5 in order to achieve this when it becomes available/stable in order to switch over to Apache-2.2.
I do appreciate all that you have done - especially the ruby packages in dev.centos.org which I have been using for nearly 10 months now. I can also appreciate that a one-time roll of the packages is one thing but it almost becomes a commitment to errata re-rolls too, which given the history of apache & php, is not infrequent.
Craig