RFC on packaging of additional Apache2 modules

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:

> I'm preparing a new Apache 2 release, and want to include a conf.d
> arrangement to allow additional module packagess to install
> configuration fragments in a useful way.
>
> So far, my tentative proposal is:
>
> Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/*.conf in httpd.conf.
> Have module packages install config fragments to
> /etc/apache2/conf-std.d/, and copy them insto conf.d if no equivalent
> exists.
>
> This is consistent with the way the package currently handles
> httpd.conf, etc.
>
> I'm posting here for input before I go ahead and do it.

The above sounds fine, but why not use /etc/defaults/etc/apache2/conf.d/
instead of /etc/apache2/conf-std.d/?
	Igor
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