[Yum] Apache2 updates via yum?

[Jeff Sheltren]

Have you tried grabbing it from a rawhide distro?  That may work...

-Jeff

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 07:24, Brad Cox wrote:
> Not strictly yum-related, just tangentially so. Mainly to make you 
> aware of a big problem yum repositories haven't addressed in the hope 
> that some kind yum repository maintainer on this list will take 
> notice.
> 
> Apache2 uses sendfile (kernel feature) unless SendFileEnabled is 
> turned off in httpd.conf. Works fine on Linux 8.0 (my dev box), but 
> not on the NVFS (sp?) filesystem of by my 8.0 deployment box. The 
> catch22 starts there.
> 
> The httpd that was installed by default doesn't run because sendfile 
> support was compiled in, but doesn't support the SendFileEnabled 
> option in httpd.conf to turn it off. Yum can't help because later 
> versions aren't in the repositories, just the version mentioned 
> above. And the version that is available has security notices posted 
> against it; haven't investigated that further.
> 
> I found a later httpd2 rpm (by Henry Gomez) and installed that, and 
> am proceeding from there (unsuccessfully so far: weird connection 
> refused failures even from telnet localhost 80; any ideas??).
> 
> Bottom line: could some yum maintainer please install a recent httpd2? Thanks!
> 
> If there's a better list for this, pls advise!