[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

Thu Mar 22 02:51:18 CET 2012

Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+> Le 17/03/2012 03:22, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+>> Hence I suggest a single user id to be used. (I'm fine with any other
+>> solution which works as well)
+> My main concern is the fuzziness of the current situation where we have
+> - one virtual package 'webserver' corresponding to four implementations 
+> (apache, lightpd, nginx, cherooke)
+> - one common base (webserver-base) only used by the two first ones
+> - all our web applications packages using 'apache' as mandatory dependency
+> 
+> If the main concern is file ownership, I'd propose for the next release 
+> to have each of these servers use a distinct uid, document root and 
+> index page, but use a shared 'webserver' or 'www' gid, and ensure all of 
+> those applications use group-based permission, instead of user-based. 
+> I'd find this setup a bit clearer.
+
+I also noticed two of the php subpackages adding the apache user in %post.
+Should they be doing this, should they Requires(post): webserver-base, or
+should this be handled some other way?
+
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