Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 164477
Package is incorrectly named (confusing)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:19 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.9.3 (Ubuntu) Description of problem: The "mod_ssl" that ships with RHEL isn't really mod_ssl (www.modssl.org) is it? Isn't it Apache-SSL (www.apache-ssl.org)? I realize that there isn't a "mod_ssl" for Apache 2.0 and that it seems that in Apache 2.2 there is going to be an ASF "mod_ssl" (Apache-SSL renamed?), but right now this is all very confusing. The rpm information points to httpd.apache.org for the URL, and the documentation on the ASF website seems to be cleaner/more complete, but wouldn't it make more sense to name the package httpd-ssl or something similar as to not add to the confusion? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mod_ssl-2.0.52-12.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. (clarity issue) 2. 3. Additional info:
Thanks for contacting us. The "mod_ssl" in httpd 2.0 is based on Ralf Engelschall's mod_ssl, so has a legitimate claim to the name! This FAQ entry describes the history: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#history