Hi,
On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 08:33:33PM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote:
> > > I have only checked that pound doesn't explode when I start it using
> > > rcctl. I have removed the patches to pound.8 since some of it is
> > > incorporated and the other bits are just suggestions.
> > >
> > > If anyone uses this, please test.
> >
> > I'm using pound on a -stable machine and will try to test it this
> > weekend if it helps. I already gave it a quick try, but the
> > configuration file syntax changed (at least for regular expressions),
> > so I'll have to read the documentation of the new version first.
>
> Thanks that would be great. If you have suggestions on how to improve
> the example config in files/ that would also be great.
First of all: it works, even without changes to the config file,
but the config file check (pound -c) complained about "unrecognized
escape characters" in regular expressions. The reason for this is
that you now have to escape backslashes, i.e. use "www\\.example\\.com"
instead of "www\.example\.com".
The example config still parses fine, and I don't see any way it
could break with pound 4.11.
For other syntax changes: Some directives have been deprecated (for
example HeadRequire, which should be replaced by Header), but this
is mentioned in the man page, so people will have a chance to
"modernize" their config before future versions will be released.
So if you don't get negative test results from other people, this
update is ok for me, with one nit:
Pound can be built against pcre or pcre2. If both are installed,
pound will pick up pcre2 unless told otherwise during configure. I
successfully tested both, and if nothing speask against pcre, the
LIB_DEPENDS should be changed to devel/pcre2, and WANTLIB to
c crypto pcre2-8 pcre2-posix pthread ssl
Ciao,
Kili
