apache upgrade

[Gary Sublett]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, R Scott Belford wrote:

> So, let's see, despite the fact that their distribution has been
> successfully sold to "production" customers for years, using their RPM
> is asking for trouble.  Specifically, what kind of trouble is one asking
> for by using Redhat's apache RPM?  I'm still wondering what's so
> insecure about webmin which you insisted was trouble weeks ago.  Sharing
> knowledge is helpful, spreading FUD without evidence/documentation is
> not.  With regards to where to install apache should you choose to roll
> your own, I like Warren's suggestion of /opt/[program name]  There is no
> rule about where to install packages.
>
> scott
>
> On Friday, January 11, 2002, at 12:49  AM, epsas at inflicted.net wrote:
>
> > A production web server should always use custom compiled versions of
> > Apache/MySQL.  Using Redhat's (or, for that matter, anyone else's) RPM
> > is asking for trouble.  As far as installing software goes -
> > /usr/local/ is the place to dump local packages.  /opt is a
> > SuSe/Solaris convention, not Redhat iirc.
> >
> >
> >> If you want to install software from non-RPM sources, I highly suggest
> >> not
> >> installing it anywhere inside of /usr because it will get mixed up
> >> with your
> >> RPM system.  I usually install extra software in /opt/softwarename, or
> >> sometimes /usr/local/bin if it is very small.
> >>
> >> However, for Apache you don't need to use *.tar.gz files.  Red Hat
> >> packages
> >> the latest version of Apache in their Red Hat Rawhide, a place where
> >> they
> >> put the cutting edge latest versions of their packages.  You can find
> >> Rawhide on most Red Hat mirrors.  This URL is to the latest version of
> >> Rawhide Apache RPM.  It may require upgrades of many other Red Hat
> >> packages
> >> if RPM compiles about dependencies.  You will find these upgraded
> >> dependencies in Rawhide too.
> >>
> >
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I don't care to get into a debate about RPM's vs source tarball's but the
following ref's provide good authoritative guidence on where to put things
within the file structure.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs
http://www.linuxbase.org/



Gary