Bug 806346

Summary:	Update to latest stable version 1.0.x
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Pavel Lisý <pavel.lisy>
Component:	nginx	Assignee:	Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	el5	CC:	affix, jamielinux, jeremy
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Description Pavel Lisý 2012-03-23 13:57:44 UTC

Description of problem:

Is it possible to update nginx to latest stable version? 

With new 10 years support for RHEL5 it makes sense to update it (for more than next 3 years of these systems). 

Compilation is definitely possible. On http://nginx.org/en/download.html is repository for RHEL 5 with latest version (1.0.14) in it.

If you give rights I can help with it.

Comment 1 Jeremy Hinegardner 2012-03-23 16:53:18 UTC

Updating a major version of a package is, in the vast majority of cases, against the EPEL policy.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#A_major_version_update

"this update should be avoided if possible at all. If there really is no other way out to fix a serious bug then it rare cases it might be acceptable to build the new version for the testing branch and mention the update and the needed adjustments in the release notes for the next update. An additional compat- packages with the old libs is necessary if the ABI changed"


Since the 0.8.x branch of nginx is still supported by upstream, I think it is correct to keep it at this level for EPEL 5. Should a critical bug come through nginx that is not fixed in 0.8.x, or if 0.8.x goes out of support then it would be appropriate to update nginx in EPEL 5 to the 1.0.x releases.

For instance, if the recent security bug for nginx had not been fixed in 0.8, I would have updated nginx to 1.0.14.

-jeremy