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> Fra: "C.G. van der Werf (Carel)" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sendt: 26. april 2014 09:44:20
> Emne: RE: Software Collections 1.0 is available  for SL 6
> 
> Any Chance that other "relevant" packages could be part of this software
> collection ?
> 
> I'm still looking for a qualified repository for newer apache-server
> versions.
> 
> (SL6x comes with Apache 2.2.15, while latest version is 2.2.27...)

Hi,

Don't look yourself blind on the version numbers.  Enterprise Linux seldom does version rebases.  But that doesn't it's lagging behind.  All important bug and security fixes from newer versions are backported to the versions found in the EL repositories, despite having an older version number.  The reason for this is that RHEL is certified on a vast majority of hardware, and when version rebases can break certain certifications.  As certifications are expensive and time consuming, only the needed bug and security fixes are backported.  Market demands or paying RHEL customers may also request feature improvements too, where features from newer versions are backported.  This was happened f.ex. when EL5 got KVM support.  EL5 is based on the 2.6.18 kernel, while KVM was first introduced in 2.6.24 (iirc).  So the KVM pieces were backported to function inside the 2.6.18 source tree.

So I would recommend you to look carefully through the changelog of the httpd package (rpm -q --changelog httpd) and compare it against the changelog of the upstream apache httpd project.


kind regards,

David Sommerseth