Karanbir Singh wrote: > Karl R. Balsmeier wrote: > >> And just to be really clear, no negative attitude here or anything, >> -just looking for a community assist on an important question. thanx! >> > > When you try to do something like this, its usually a good idea to see > how its done in the distro. There might be clues there. It will also > ive you an understanding on how other packages in the distro might be > linked and depend on the package you are trying to replace. > > In this case - use the httpd.spec provided in the httpd sources > package, mod_ssl is built at the same time as httpd binaries are. Just > remember to rebuild everytime there is a security issue, and everytime > anything that depends on httpd has a security issue. > > > - KB oh good, -yeah, we have been debating going to 2.0.59 using this approach, so am going to just paste your comments into our document and run with it. -right now you have done such a stellar job with the package repository my script just says yum install this or that -it's funny how it [my build script] shrinks down month by month -especially 64-bit stuff like libevent, xvfb, memcached, all these used to mean alot of source compiles and interruptions of the automated builds... looks like 4.4 has settled into a nice rhythm... hopefully when Java goes GPL the whole chicken/egg thing there will cascade into a future cent release and I can move our developer machines off of fedora once and for all... -krb