Now, that's a good idea...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Harris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 9:01 AM
> To: Stas Bekman
> Cc: Young, Geoffrey S.; mod_perl list
> Subject: RE: New mod_perl RPM really needed? (was: sourcegarden plug)
>
>
> How about this way of thinking about creating an RPM: We think of mod_perl
> as a
> special DSO that we are not really allowed to use as a DSO, so we really
> want
> to just provide another Apache binary that has mod_perl built in.. So,
> when you
> want to enable mod_perl instead if inserting a "LoadModule" line in
> httpd.conf,
> you just change from "httpd" to "httpd-perl" in the apachectl script. The
> advantage is that this one binary can share the existing Apache
> documentation
> and DSO's from the RedHat Apache RPM. We just need to install what's
> different
> for the mod_perl binary, such as all of the Perl modules and the mod_perl
> specific documentation.
>
> Of course, if I distribute the RPM, the SRPM will come along too.
>
> - David Harris
> Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
>
