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4320 packaging minor N/A 2010-03-04 18:03 2011-09-07 02:28
Reporter: skayser Platform:  
Assigned To: bwalton OS:  
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Summary: 0004320: Split off an apache2 utilities package for tools like "ab"
Description: Currently, helpful tools which are in-dependent from apache itself, like the benchmarking tool "ab" are part of the core apache2c package (which pulls in apache itself). IMHO it would be useful to provide a package - like Debian has it with apache2-utils - that contains these tools and only depends on the portable apache runtime.

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/apache2-utils [^]
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Additional Information: 2.2.13,REV=2009.08.22
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Date Modified Username Field Change
2010-03-04 18:03 skayser New Issue
2010-10-26 03:51 bwalton Note Added: 0008407
2010-10-26 03:51 bwalton Assigned To => bwalton
2010-10-26 03:51 bwalton Status new => feedback
2011-04-01 22:33 bwalton Note Added: 0008950
2011-07-04 04:02 bwalton Note Added: 0009181
2011-09-07 02:28 bwalton Note Added: 0009252
2011-09-07 02:28 bwalton Status feedback => closed
2011-09-07 02:28 bwalton Resolution open => fixed

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(0008407)
bwalton   
2010-10-26 03:51   
I agree that this would be a good split. What do you envision as the transition strategy for those that are using the tools if we split them out? Hypothetically, moving them as per your suggestion could break scripts on people until they add the new package...
(0008950)
bwalton   
2011-04-01 22:33   
I think I could make apache2 depend on apache2-utils, but allow apache2-utils to be independent. I'll look at this again now that 2.2.17 is out with the other issues resolved.
(0009181)
bwalton   
2011-07-04 04:02   
Test packages with new -utils split available at: http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/experimental.html#apache2 [^]
(0009252)
bwalton   
2011-09-07 02:28   
The new 2.2.20 package set splits out CSWapache2-utils. CSWapache2 depends on it but it can be installed by itself.