[Mageia-dev] apache 2.4 incoming

Tue Jul 17 00:33:53 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 16/07/12 22:50 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hello list.
+> 
+> I just submitted apache 2.4 to build bot, meaning it should land soon in
+> cauldron. The largest change in this release is not the version change,
+> but the large cleanup of setup, inspired by both fedora and debian
+> packages (meaning also getting rid of mandriva legacy...):
+> 
+> - all configuration now reside under a single directory
+> - the configuration is now split in three different /etc/httpd/conf
+> subdirectories:
+>  * modules.d for modules loading directives
+>  * conf.f for generic server configuration
+
+I would prefer conf.d :p
+
+>  * sites.d for site-specific configuration
+
+Cool.
+
+It's at this point however that I ask if we should ever have any
+/usr/lib/httpd/conf/ structure added? It's a kinda tough on here as
+apache config is very much meant to be edited, but if packages (and
+packaged modules) are shipping config files, perhaps they should be
+installed in /usr/lib instead and made non-editable (i.e. not %config)
+where admins are meant to provide any customisations they need into
+files in /etc/. While this is the general approach that is being
+attempted in other areas of the system, I'm not 100% convinced it really
+works well for apache setups!
+
+Still some food for thought :)
+
+Col
+
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