Re: Changing mmn in Apache

Joe Orton wrote:

> If you're building 2.0.43, you should change the "%define mmn xxxx" at
> the top of httpd.spec to use the new MMN number, so that this
> incompatiblity is reflected in the package dependencies. Any Apache 2.0
> module packages designed to work with the Red Hat Linux 8.0 httpd
> package should have a line like:
>
> Requires: httpd-mmn = %(cat %{_includedir}/httpd/.mmn)
>
> so that they pick up a dependency on the module ABI version.

Yes, you're right. Doing this would catch the incompatibility
at installation time rather than at runtime. Since Greg Stein
has convinced me that my short-cut is a bad idea, I will
definitely do this and rebuild the RPMs for the modules I need.
Thanks for the reminder.

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