[HEADSUP] extracting LoadModule out of httpd.conf

[Patrick Powell]

On 08/12/16 09:15, olli hauer wrote:
> On 2016-08-12 16:32, Patrick Powell wrote:
>> On 08/10/16 14:07, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>>> Mathieu Arnold wrote on 08/10/2016 17:42:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It is coming.
>>>>
>>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7460
>>>>
>>>> constructive comments welcome.
>>>>
> ...
>> I plead with the people making this change to update apachectl to list the modules that are loaded:
>>
>>> # apachectl modules
>>   ....
>>   mod_perl ....
> It is already there, use the same parameter as for httpd direct `apachectl -M'
>
>
>> And when you update mod_perl and the U&*(()*&U httpd.conf file gets mangled and the mod_perl line is removed or
>> commented out,   you now stand a fighting chance of finding this. With the change to itty-bitty files this would
>> be even more useful.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity,  how are you going to now deal with temporarily commenting out LoadModule entries?
>>
> Since more then one year mod_perl2 installs a .sample file and no longer changes httpd.conf
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/mod_perl2/pkg-plist?r1=388885&r2=389628
>
> But I have to admit this is not the case for all modules in the ports tree
>
Thanks for the pointer to the -M option.
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