The Gentoo Apache Team is pleased to announce the stabilizing of package updates that have been in the works for over a year. Some of the major changes include:
- New configuration and configuration locations to more closely match upstream and reduce confusion for users coming from other distributions. - Modules now use a centralized eclass that builds, installs, and displays standard information on enabling the module. This allows easier maintenance of existing modules, and allows us to more rapidly develop ebuilds for modules that are not yet in the tree. - Expanded USE flags to let you choose which MPM is compiled. - A new gentoo-webroot that will eventually provide a gentoo-themed icon-set, error documents, and default website. This has been put in it's own package, and includes a USE-flag to not install the gentoo-webroot into /var/www/localhost - useful if you put your own website there. - And much more, including the fixing of many many bugs. These changes will stabilized on Sunday, September 18th. These changes have been throughly tested and given a thumbs up by many many users. They also allow you to use the new php (including support for php5) ebuilds when they become fully available. Because of these changes and improvements, when you upgrade to the new revision of Apache, you will need to take care of some things. These are fully documented in our Upgrading Apache document [1], but in summary, this is what you will need to do: - Merge any customizations that you have made to the Apache configuration into the new configuration at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf (The configuration file location has changed). Note that the init script for apache checks for a configuration in the old location and refuses to start if you haven't moved/removed it - this is to avoid the possibility of moving to a configuration that isn't right for your machine. - Update any modules that you used to revisions that support the new eclass. Older modules will not work due to location changes. - Restart Apache We have done our best to make it easy to migrate, but if you have problems, feel free to visit us in #gentoo-apache on irc.freenode.net or on our mailing list gentoo-web-user@gentoo.org and we'll be glad to help. Thanks, The Gentoo Apache Team [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/apache-upgrading.xml -- Michael Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~vericgar GnuPG Key ID 0x08614788 available on http://pgp.mit.edu --
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