> Hmmmm, OK, I get it. > > I know I can build the latest Apache on CentOS, and what we currently > do is put it into /usr/local - which I guess works. > > I'd really prefer to have an RPM though. > > Certainly the CentOS team as a way in which they produce this RPM. > Is this method public? And if so, is it easy to obtain, and run > against the latest Apache source code to produce my own RPM? there is the redhat webstack (rhwas) code base to use. it has newer http, php, mysql, postgres, etc. i have grabbed those srpms from ftp.redhat.com and built my own repo. centos has a testing repo that is doing the same kind of thing, but has been a bit spotty with keeping up with changes from upstream. maybe that has cleared up now, but since i put the effort into my own repo, i haven't kept tabs. kbsingh has talked about making a sub repo just for the webstack code, but i don't think that has ever happened.