On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 12:38 -0600, Eric Vought wrote: > OK, what I have done is rebuilt the RPM with the changes. I actually > only need to change httpd-suexec, but it is built along with > half-a-dozen other packages out of the httpd srpm. I took the time to > set up a non-root RPM build environment as I will have to keep up with > updates myself. (I hate compiling things as root- dangerous). > > In order to (hopefully) prevent auto-update, I changed the package > release in the spec file to add "di" to the end. This seems to be enough > to keep YUM from trying to mix the packages, but it still provides > "httpd", so other package dependencies appear to be fine. Because of > this, I had to install all of the rebuilt packages, not just the one I > needed. This won't stop yum replacing your packages when the next update of httpd comes out though (it will have a higher version or release number and will hence be "newer" than your package). You'll need exclude=httpd* in your yum.conf (or .repo file(s)) to do that. > I have a spec file patch. In fact, I have two. The first one is just the > changes to make the suexec-docroot parameratizable at the top of the > spec file. Previously, content_dir controlled *both* the Apache docroot > and the suexec docroot. In my version, there is a separate parameter > which defaults to content_dir. I also add the configured docroot to the > httpd-suexec RPM package summary. The second diff has the suexec_docroot > customized for my needs and changes the package release. > > It seems like my first patch might be generally useful. What do I do > with it? You could try raising it as an RFE in bugzilla. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
