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Bug ID: 2041430 Summary: [RFC] Drop support for mod_perl in F36+/EL9+ Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Status: NEW Component: perl-Plack Assignee: rc040203@freenet.de Reporter: xavier@bachelot.org QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: emmanuel@seyman.fr, jose.p.oliveira.oss@gmail.com, perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org, ppisar@redhat.com, rc040203@freenet.de, xavier@bachelot.org Target Milestone: --- Classification: Fedora
Hi Ralf,
As you know, I'll take care of building perl-Plack in EPEL 9. One of the dependency is mod_perl, which won't make it to EPEL 9 and is marked as abandoned/unsupported for Fedora in the specfile.
I'd like to suggest the following tuning to the rawhide branch specfile. It disables mod_perl support for both el9+, but I thought it might make sense to also disable it in F36+. I'd like to get this or a variation of this in rawhide so one can keep a non-diverging history in the epel9 branch.
I'll submit a proper PR once you gave me your thoughts on this approach.
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# Build with mod_perl support for Apache HTTP server version 2. # Abandoned/Unsupported in Fedora. +%if 0%{?rhel} >= 9 || 0%{?fedora} >= 36 +%bcond_with perl_Plack_enables_httpd2 +%else %bcond_without perl_Plack_enables_httpd2 +%endif
# Recommends IPv6 support to HTTP::Server::PSGI embedded web server %bcond_without perl_Plack_enables_ipv6 """
Regards, Xavier
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--- Comment #1 from Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de --- No way!!! mod_perl is a key component of rt.
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--- Comment #2 from Xavier Bachelot xavier@bachelot.org --- Ok, I should have known about that. So I'll remove Fedora from the conditional to keep only EL9, I trust this should be fine with you.
Although, you made me curious so I took a look at RT doc, and there are alternatives to mod_perl, which might be worth be looked into at some point if mod_perl is tagged as unsupported/abandoned in Fedora. RT 4.4 doc mentions fastcgi, while RT 5.0 doc mentions mod_fcgid.
https://docs.bestpractical.com/rt/4.4.5/README.html https://docs.bestpractical.com/rt/5.0.2/README.html
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--- Comment #3 from Petr Pisar ppisar@redhat.com --- I will be more than happy to give maintainership of mod_perl to someone indeed interested in it. Ralf, if you need mod_perl, I can transfer the package to you.
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--- Comment #4 from Emmanuel Seyman emmanuel@seyman.fr --- FTR, I was setting up RT to run using psgi back in 2013...
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--- Comment #5 from Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de --- (In reply to Emmanuel Seyman from comment #4)
FTR, I was setting up RT to run using psgi back in 2013...
I repeatedly tried, but I have never been able to get this working and repeatly asked for assistance.
Would it be possible for you to pass on some docs/how-tos rsp. your patches to me?
(In reply to Xavier Bachelot from comment #2)
Although, you made me curious so I took a look at RT doc, and there are alternatives to mod_perl, which might be worth be looked into at some point if mod_perl is tagged as unsupported/abandoned in Fedora. RT 4.4 doc mentions fastcgi, while RT 5.0 doc mentions mod_fcgid.
Something for me to investigate.
All I can say for now: rt4+fastcgi had been a dysfunctional mess for a long time. May-be the situation has changed? I don't know.
While we're at it: I am eagerly waiting for somebody to review:
These 2 block rt-5: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2016587 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039193
And this one blocks me from upgrading perl-MooX-late (Deep in rt's dep chain). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2016580
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--- Comment #6 from Xavier Bachelot xavier@bachelot.org --- I've filed https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl-Plack/pull-request/2.
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