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Just a simple [cpan.org] guy, hacking Perl for fun and profit since way back in the last millenium. You may find me hanging around in the monestary [perlmonks.org].
What am I working on right now? Probably the Sprog project [sourceforge.net].
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Debian amd64 adventures
We recently installed Debian Sarge on an AMD64 box and were surprised to find regexes in Apache were broken so this type of thing wouldn't work:
RedirectMatch ^/oldprefix/(.*)
/newprefix/$1
It turns out this was a known bug which has been fixed, but unfortunately the fix didn't make it into the recent Debian stable release. The developers suggested I recompile the Sarge version with the patch. So then I had to find out how to do that. It was remarkably straightforward:
First I had to download the source and also install any packages required by the build process:
apt-get source apache
apt-get build-dep apache
cd apache-1.3.33
Then I installed the patch file (linked above) as debian/patches/516_amd_regex and tweaked it so the first two lines read:
--- build-tree/apache_1.3.33/src/regex/regexec.c 1998-09-15 15:47:45.000000000 -0400
+++ build-tree/apache_1.3.33.new/src/regex/regexec.c 2004-11-05 02:05:17.265970608 -0500
Then I edited debian/changelog to describe the change and define a version number for my package. Finally I built new
./debian/rules binary
After a surprisingly short time (it is a fairly quick box after all), the packages were built and ready to install:
cd
..
dpkg -i apache-common_1.3.33-6grant1_amd64.deb apache-dev_1.3.33-6grant1_all.deb apache-perl_1.3.33-6grant1_amd64.deb
The fact that none of this involved manually locating and downloading tarballs, running config scripts or researching obscure build options is fantastic. The fact that I now have a set of packages I can deploy on similar boxes is a lovely bonus. Yay Debian!
PS: The reason I installed the -dev package was because I needed it for a similar exercise to fix the broken Apache::Request package.
an endless discussion thread about what features to include.
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
Debian == Good (Score:2)
Some people claim that Debian is a bit stuffy, but it's a well thought out and integrated distribution that normally "just works". I've been running Sarge/AMD64 and Etch/AMD64 for 6 months, and it's been a trouble free exercise. I've had the odd problem on Etch(testing), but nothing that has persisted for more than a week or so.
-- "It's not magic, it's work..."