From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 19 20:47:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06EEC37B4E5 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 110 invoked by uid 1003); 20 Oct 2000 03:47:16 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 05:47:16 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Scot W. Hetzel" Cc: Ade Lovett , FreeBSD-Ports Subject: Re: New bsd.apache.mk Message-ID: <20001020054716.A97672@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200010200259.VAA00433@wbiw01.westbend.net> <20001019221016.N2163@FreeBSD.org> <00f501c03a47$9d04cb40$8dfee0d1@westbend.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00f501c03a47$9d04cb40$8dfee0d1@westbend.net>; from hetzels@westbend.net on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:41:21PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-10-19 (22:41), Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > From: Ade Lovett > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:59:01PM -0500, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > > > The purpose of bsd.apache.mk is to make it easier to create an > > > Apache Module port, as well as to remove redundant code from > > > the existing Apache Module ports. > > > > > > Does any changes need to be made before I send-pr it? > > > > Patches for bsd.port.mk to hook in bsd.apache.mk if required, > > Patch for bsd.port.mk included in previous message (at bottom of msg). > > > patches for at least some of the existing apache-related ports > > to make use of these new features, etc., etc. > > > I was hopeing that the existing apache-related port maintainers would create > these patches, as I don't have time to go thru all 32 ports right now. > > > Does any of this bsd.apache.mk help any with the progress towards > > a single www/apache port and followup www/mod_ssl ? > > > > > We won't be able to get to a single apache port, but we can reduce that > number to 3 ports, all installing to a common layout. NetBSD compiles in the mod_ssl EAPI into their apache package by default, which is something we should consider. It does require downloading the mod_ssl tarball, but the benefits for package users is great. They also install PHP3 modules as modules, which is quite cool. Cheers, Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message