Hi,
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 04:23:33PM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
- 66_apache2.4.patch: Some Apache 2.4 fixes. Since Apache 2.2 is End of Life already, IMHO you do not need to care for the old syntax anymore. Then again, some distributions with long-term support might still have Apache 2.2, so you might want to cross-check if that has some impact there.
while Apache 2.2 is EOL, there are a LOT of distros and installations that still have it running running back ports.
So far I only can come up with RHEL/CentOS 6, Debian 7 Wheezy ELTS (EoL in about two months) and Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (i.e. paid-only LTS) who still provide Apache 2.2.
At least Wheezy and Ubuntu 12.04 ship Xymon out of the box and I would be surprised if anyone on these releases follows upstream source code instead of using the distro-provided packages (with older Xymon versions).
So probably the only still relevant distro shipping Apache 2.2 is RHEL/CentOS 6. JC probably knows better how wide-spread Xymon is there.
I'd say it costs nothing to leave in
IMHO the cost is primarily to figure out if a case switch is needed between Apache 2.2 and 2.4.
The patch _is_ needed if you want to run your Apache 2.4 without mod_access_compat — which probably will vanish in some future Apache release as its sole purpose is to provide Apache 2.2 authentication/authorization syntax in Apache 2.4, i.e. needs to be applied at some point in the future for sure.
and has the potential of creating a lot of heartache by taking it out...
Only if there are people out there who don't rely on distro-built packages and want the newest version of Xymon on their oldest boxes,
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