On 19/10/02 14:35, "Jeff Trawick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I can't install Solaris 8 from a recent enough CD-ROM set that has
> sendfile if I want to do Apache 2.0 binbuilds which are usable by the
> general Solaris 8 user community (you can't even download
> sendfile+prerequisites without a maintenance contract last time I
> tried).
Hmm... You can download the latest version of Solaris, boot from the CD, and
for PACKAGE in `pkginfo -r /a` ; do pkginst -r /a /Products/$PACKAGE ; done
(expand the obvious bits where the stuff wouldn't work)...
Basically you're going to replace the whole OS with a new one, or you can
just replace a couple of packages (SUNWcor and SUNWcorx)... Ok, it's a hack,
but what the heck! :-)
> Heck, even with Win32 there aren't many people who can do binbuilds,
> and that is particularly bad when a security fix is announced and
> everybody looks for the same one person.
And given that MSVC costs $$$$$, the problem gets bigger...
> If there were money ("thanks for downloading the latest Apache binary
> distribution for your platform; would you care to contribute a few
> euros towards the generation and availability of what you just
> downloaded?"), it would be possible to maintain a set of machines
> running the appropriate set of system software to enable binbuilds to
> be reliably built for the largest possible audience.
>
> If a loosely affiliated group ("unencumbered friends of Apache") could
> accept contributions and maintain a rich set of binbuilds of Apache
> with/without SSL support, a lot of users would be happier and a lot of
> PRs could be closed with less hair turning gray but without breaking
> the user ("I'm sorry you are encountering this particular build SNAFU.
> It works fine for a number of people on that platform. There is a
> trusted binary build for your platform available from
> www.xxxxxx.org.").
>
> More than what you were interested I'm sure, but there are other
> frustrating aspects of binbuilds than just the encryption issue.
Well, I don't think that you need $$$, the only thing you really need is
hardware (for the builds), bandwidth (for downloads) and time (to build)...
The "unencumbered friends of Apache" could put time, hardware can be donated
(a nice web page saying "if you want a binary build for AIX, give me a nice
IBM box"), and bandwidth can be sponsored by someone (I mean, as long as you
put down a nice "Thank you to <LINK> for donating the bandwidth")... I'm
sure that (at least in the UK) someone like Clara.NET, Level3, or even Demon
would like the idea...
Pier
