Hmmm... I wonder if the config directive could take a URL as a parameter as an alternative...
> On Apr 23, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > > On 04/21/2015 10:13 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: >> On 04/21/2015 09:55 AM, Jim Jagielski 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)... >>> >> Wild assertion: Most people don't get their httpd build from us, so it >> will be meaningless for them (i.e., says out-of-date the first day they >> fire up their shiny new Fedora-latest/Ubuntu-latest/etc.). >> > > Provide either a configuration option, or other easy way for packagers to > alter where ET phones home, to compensate for that reality. > > --Rich > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
