Nginx note

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/19/13 8:24 PM, "davidjb" <david at davidjb.com> wrote:
>
>My thought was whether FastCGI-enabled Shibboleth SP Linux/EL packages
>could
>be built along side the standard packages. Whilst FastCGI packages aren't
>a default inclusion in EL repositories, having a requirement of using the
>custom build that the user needs to install the fcgi package first seems
>reasonable.  I'm open to ideas here -- I'm keen to avoid needing to
>manually
>rebuild the Shibboleth SP for each new version.

There really isn't a win doing a separate build because the only thing
adding FCGI does is cause two stand-alone binaries to be built. There's no
effect on the rest of the code already being built, which is a good thing
obviously.

The problem is that the OpenSUSE build service won't build anything unless
the dependencies are either included in the platform image, or are
provided as packages within the project. In other words, to do this, the
fastcgi package needs to be added to the project so it can be built there
and pulled in by the SP build.

I'm willing to do that, I just don't know what the churn is on the fcgi
library, what state the RPM packaging for it is in, how much hassle it
might be, etc. The build service is very picky and it takes time to get a
specfile working in some cases.

What I would suggest if you're interested is to consider branching the
project into your own home project there for testing and try adding the
fcgi library as a package to see how well it goes. Or see if somebody else
is willing maybe.

Eventually I can pick it up (much more quickly if it's actually working
already), I just don't have the time right now while I'm working on the
IdP.

-- Scott