On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Josh Kayse wrote:
> I have recently acquired mod_wsgi commit permissions and am going through some of
the open bugs for it on bugzilla. According to [1], and from my testing, mod_wsgi and
mod_python conflict resulting in apache segfaulting. The policy currently states that no
packages in EPEL may conflict with a package from Red Hat Base. Technically, mod_wsgi and
mod_python conflict with each other, but mod_python is optional.
>
> I don't think that mod_wsgi should be pulled from EPEL because it is already
built for RHEL5 and it is usable as long as mod_python is disabled in apache.
>
> [1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524120
I agree, and think there might be room in the policy for edge cases like this. I'd
like to see something added to the policy that would cover this situation, being that
mod_python is optional.
I'm not sure what such a policy would look like but +1 to something along
this line.
-Toshio