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Date:      Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:43:59 +0100
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "J.C. Frazier" <wolfman@csocs.com>, Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>, "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>, Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@mindstep.com>, dirk@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG, rse@engelschall.com, adam@algroup.co.uk, dan@freebsddiary.org
Subject:   Re: ports/15873: New Apache_fp+php+mod_ssl-1.3.9+3.0.12+2.4.8 port.
Message-ID:  <38829E0F.22C453C2@partitur.se>
References:  <015d01bf57ef$34afcd00$8dfee0d1@westbend.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001051943250.20208-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> <20000108150504.B76402@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> <38826F91.48DAB167@csocs.com>

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Hi!

Just read all of this thread.

I think the way to go here is more or less the same way as NetBSD. They have an apache port, and they have apache module ports (ap-*) and they even have php3-extension ports (php-*). This sounds like
a dream to me ;-)

From what I have gathered by reading all of this thread (hey, I just got here ;-) Scot W. Hetzel is having something very similar to what I just described, at least for apache modules. My vote is:
Please commit it.

One problem that exists now, is that apart from having a lot ports, we also have a lot of different layouts, and different binary names etc (the server is sometimes called 'httpd', sometime 'apache'),
which makes it impossible to make a mod_* port that will work under every apache subport, and at the same time obey PREFIX. You'll have to ask APXS -q and hope that the user is actually running the
lastly installed apache port; Installing apache13 followed by, say apache_modssl, will put almost everything in different places except for apxs! If you really need several different apache binaries,
I suggest installing them with different PREFIXes.

One main apache module with mod_* for as much as possible is the way to go, IMHO.

Palle Girgensohn

PS. NetBSD acutally has two, but the other one is for IPv6! They're really on a different scale here, I have to admit. DS.


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