[svlug] RHL 5.2

[Walter Reed]

At 01:08 PM 11/14/98 , Rick Moen wrote:
>Quoting Jonathan Sergent (sergent at io.com):
>> In message <4.1.19981113112516.00a4b760 at mail.itrade.net>, Walter Reed
writes:
>>  ] The other minor nit I have with RedHat is the philosophy behind how 
>>  ] software is installed. Check out Apache, which ends up with parts 
>>  ] all over the system.  /etc/httpd, /home/httpd, /usr/sbin, 
>>  ] /var/log/httpd, /usr/lib/apache, etc.  This is as bad or worse 
>>  ] than a Windows program. I'm kind of at a loss trying to understand 
>>  ] why RedHat would move SO far from the standard Apache installation.
>> 
>> Standards, actually... FHS.
>
>Nothing in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard even remotely suggests 
>putting the system HTML tree under /home (or even mentions that tree,
>for that matter.)  The notion that it's the httpd "user's" home directory 
>is pretty ridiculous.  (Does that "user" get a public_html subtree and
>mail spool, too?)

Hmm. I wasn't aware of FHS. This at least explains what Red Hat was trying 
to do. 

The problem I was dealing with is trying to figure out how to re-build apache 
with configuration options identical to the original red-hat options because 
I needed to change some things in Apache. Turns out that they must have REALLY 
mucked with things since it would definately take me a while to manually edit 
Makefiles etc. to mirror their configuration. I COULD use the source RPM's,
but 
as I was saying, I tend to upgrade faster than Red-Hat can create an RPM for 
new versions which is where the whole issue came from in the first place.

No longer can I do an easy ./configure, make, make install. Now I have to go
in depth and configure everything by hand with tons of --blah-option's, hand
edit the resulting Makefiles because not everything is changeable via 
configure, Re-edit the makefiles that were blown-away by another round 
of ./configure, etc. 

Phooey. 

rpm -e apache.

Too bad that it's not so easy for other packages because of the dependancy 
issues.



--
Walter Reed
Engineering Director
InterTrade Systems Corp.


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