> On Apr 21, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Nick Kew <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:00:05 +0200 > Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 21 Apr 2015, at 15:55, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> For comment: What do people think about adding the capability that >>> when httpd is started, it tries to access http://httpd.apache.org/doap.rdf >>> to check its version number with the latest one referred to in that >>> file and, if a newer one exists, it prints out a little message >>> in the error.log (or stderr)… >> >> First reaction - Eek && Evil ! Breaks about every assumption I have about >> well defined unix programmes. >> >> However if it where something like ‘httpd C / --configcheck’ or similarily >> for apachectl then I could easily image that to be rather useful. > > +1 (to Dirk). > > Capability, OK. Even, configuration option, perhaps > (that would allow packagers to reference their own URL). > But no way would I want it calling home in a default > startup behind my back! > > Suggestion 1: make it a module. > Suggestion 2: consider something lighter-weight than RDF. > e.g. an X-latest: header in our own server > response to HEAD / . >
I like the module ideal. Nick, can you make it an ATS plugin too? :-). One thought though: This would need to be able to distinguish upgrades within 2 or more LTS releases. So checking against one server might not suffice. — Leif
