Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:55:25 +0200 From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, culley@fastmail.fm (culley harrelson) Subject: Re: apache13 to apache13-modssl port migration Message-ID: <plct73LJUw@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> References: <G9AotXLJUw@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <bjm4dq$8a9$1@sea.gmane.org> <G9AotXLJUw@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <bjo82i$tir$1@sea.gmane.org>
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I wrote:
> >
> > The transition is easy.
> >
> > 1) deinstall all your ports(modules) depended on apache13
> > 2) install apache13-modssl.
> > 3) recompile all ports(modules)
> >
> > You can use apache13-modssl just as a replacment to apache13.
> > But apache13-modssl uses extrand API, so you have to
> > recompile all apache modules with "apache13-modssl" installed.
> >
> > all modules will build, install and run fine, maybe portupgrade
> > will see wrong dependencys.
> >
> > some ports suports this very well using in /etc/make.conf
> > APACHE_PORT= www/apache13-modssl
> >
> > still some ports use a "obsolete" setting like:
> > APACHE_PORT= ${PORTSDIR}/www/apache13-modssl
> > AP_PORT= www/apache13-modssl
> > AP_PORT= apache13-modssl
> >
> > This might be improved after The 4.9 Release
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/32604
cully wrote:
> Would you avoid portupgrade for this?
>
> I am a little shaky in the knees at this prospect. This is on a
> production web server getting over 1 million page views per day. I use
> mod_php4, mod_auth_pgsql, mod_gzip, mailman, and I have some other ports
> installed like squirrelmail, mnogosearch, a bunch of pear libraries (not
> even sure if they are dependent on apache13), phpMyAdmin and probably a
> few other things I haven't even thought of. <gulp>
>
> Once this is done do all these ports change to think they are dependent
> on apache13-modssl rather than www/apache13?
Yes, the PR#32604 will fix this.
But even now, you don't have to worry,
just be sure the modules are compiled with only www/apache13-modssl
installed, if portupgrade dones not overwrite with with "www/apache13"
in some coases you are perfectly fine, even if some ports register
a wrong dependency.
kind regards Dirk
- Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany
- [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org],[dirk.meyer@guug.de],[dinoex@FreeBSD.org]
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