[Mageia-dev] apache-mpm gone

Sun Jul 22 14:45:40 CEST 2012

Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> writes:
+
+> Le 22/07/2012 03:25, David Walser a écrit :
+>> Let me read your mind as to why you're asking this, however.  apache-mod_php requires apache-mpm and you're wondering what to do about that.
+>> That require is actually incorrect, even on Mageia 2, and I wish I had caught this earlier.  The require should now just be on apache, and I'll
+>> have to make the same change in Mageia 2 next time we issue a security update for php.  See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6534 for
+>> some background.  Basically this is a result of the way we reorganized the requires of the packages within the apache spec before Mageia 2.
+> AFAIK, php was not compatible with all available apache mpms, hence
+> the dependency on a specific one.
+
+Yes, there were comments in the php spec file around conflicts with mpms:
+
+# php is not fully thread safe
+# http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php#faq.installation.apache2
+# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/681081/is-php-thread-safe
+Conflicts:     apache-mpm-worker >= %{apache_version}
+Conflicts:     apache-mpm-event >= %{apache_version}
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+