redhat-config-httpd question

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

You might look at rpmbuild.  It will create rpm's out of source tarballs, 
if the spec file is created properly.  That way you could download the 
source and use a build script for your boxes that don't have rpm, and 
rpmbuild to create the rpm's for those that do.

Ben

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote:

> Yup, already got that one. Thanks for the warning though.
> 
> I usually ./configure with my own --prefix anyway because I run multiple
> instances of apache on each server. I'm probably more worried about
> running one server with ip based virtual hosts instead of multiple
> apache instances than the file locations. I'll have to think a little
> harder about tuning...
> 
> Another disadvantage to rpm for me is that I have other non-rpm boxes
> (Solaris, gentoo, xBSD) that I don't have rpm and must build from source
> on and I like the flexibility of using the same build scripts on each
> system. Also, I can usually get the latest source quicker than waiting
> on an rpm.
> 
> In the end though, I'm mainly looking to save time. Even something as
> common as upgrading to the latest version of apache takes quite a bit of
> time when you're talking about 5-7 hosts and 15-20 web sites... So if
> rpm will save me a few hours time every few months, I can probably live
> with its shortcomings. I can always back out later anyway.
> 
> Lloyd
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:08, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote:
> > You want to be careful about rpm based apache after you are used to source
> > based apache because the source based apache builds it all under
> > /usr/local/apache and the rpm based stuff drops it all over the place i.e.:
> > /sbin/httpd /etc/httpd/conf etcetera etcetera.
> > 
> > Regards, Marshall 
> 
> 
> 
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