Month: September 2007

Apache 2.2 already stable on some archs / New baselayout-2 stages

After having enjoyed a wonderful vacation in turkey, i have finally found time to resolve the remaining issues with apache and opened bug 190331 for stabilizing apache-2.0.59-r5 — which contains fixes for the CVEs mentioned on httpd.apache.org — and apache-2.2.4-r12.

We encourage everyone to upgrade to apache 2.2, there are some changes in the configuration though. We have split much of the configuration for modules bundled with apache to their own files in /etc/apache2/modules.d/. This creates a lean httpd.conf on the one hand, but also eases configuration updates in the future. Additionally, some third-party authentication modules may not work with apache 2.2 (yet), since the internal structure has changed since 2.2. For details see New features of 2.2.

The apache herd will support apache 2.0 until Dec 31 2007, so there should be enough room for migration.

Being quite busy with apache since my return from vacation i haven’t touched the experimental qmail ebuilds again yet, but i will catch up on that over the weekend and make a seperate post later on.

Last but not least, i have built new stages with baselayout-2 for vserver usage available at http://people.linux-vserver.org/~hollow/stages/. Stages for i686 are already online, amd64 is still compiling, but should be finished during this evening.