Re: mod_perl 2.0.5 Centos 6 rpms

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Dave Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26/09/11 11:51 AM, Fred Moyer wrote:
>>
>> For those Centos 6 users here looking for mod_perl 2.0.5, I rolled a few
>> rpms.
>
> Thank you Fred, I cannot (but I'll try :) explain how useful this is to us.

No problem, I submitted these rpms to the Centos devel list and it
looks like they'll be getting pushed upstream for Centos 6, and
possibly Centos 5 also.


>
> We started with mod-perl around 1999, I believe. We used/had to do
> do every thing by hand. A typical web server machine build
> took 2 to 4 days and involved:
>
> in rare cases make and install gcc
> install the base linux distribution
> make and install a custom kernel
> make and install required kernel modules
> make and install perl 5
> make and install apache, mod-perl, mod-ssl etc.
>
> I am sure I am missing stuff. There were no central repositories.
> You had to visit each source site manually. The software stack was
> rarely updated, once you got it working you left it alone ;)
>
> Now we build a machine in 2-4 hours;
> - linux install
> - yum install *many things*
> - yum update
>
> Thank you once again.
>
> Dave
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