Some weeks ago, I asked the openssl team something related to this. I wanted a
URL which redirects to the latest 1.0.2 release tar. I use this in my mod_h2
sandbox setup and got rid of updating version numbers for that package.
If there would be a url, such as
https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.4.latest.tar.gz
that then redirects to
https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.4.12.tar.gz
then people interested in checking the latest version for update could easily
do so. Maybe distributing a script for crontab that people, voluntarily, could
install is helpful.
//Stefan
> Am 21.04.2015 um 15:55 schrieb Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com>:
>
> 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)...
>
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