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Re: [PATCH] correct installation of mod_dontdothat

From: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_apache.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:51:54 +0000

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 01:57:07PM +0100, Branko ??ibej wrote:
> On 11.03.2013 13:38, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Julian Foad wrote on Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:33:09 +0000:
> >> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>> FWIW, it would have been nice to see a diff of build-outputs.mk as
> >>> well...
> >> Hi Daniel. Here's the change to build-outputs.mk as seen on my Ubuntu 12.04 system:
> >>
> > Thanks Julian!
> >
> >> [[[
> >> $ diff -U1 install-*.mk
> > This says we treat mod_dontdothat as though it was a core module
> > (subversion/mod_dontdothat): it is included in 'make apache-mod' (part
> > of 'make'), excluded from 'make tools' (part of 'make' too, as of 1.8),
> > included in 'make install-mods-shared' (and there's no
> > install-tools-mods-shared target, IIRC).
> >
> > I think that's wrong. Those makefile targets are for core modules and
> > this one is only a tools/ module at this point. Specifically, including
> > mod_dontdothat in 'make install' (rather than 'make install-tools') may
> > create false user expectations: users who don't run "make install-tools"
> > except only core stuff to be installed, but mod_dontdothat is tools/ and
> > not core.
>
>
> We've been through this discussion before, several months ago, when I
> moved mod_dontdothat from install-apache-mod to install-tools --
> precisely because the former was wrong.
>
> Better to invent install-tools-apache-mod and have it do the right thing
> than to go back to the previous incarnation of layering violations.

Filed issue #4338
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4338
Received on 2013-03-22 12:52:02 CET

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