Nginx linux packages

dubstep · August 24, 2011, 11:23am

Hi,

We have created apt and yum repositories for nginx users on Linux.
They are available on Index of /packages/
for CentOS/RHEL 5 and 6, Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian 6. There are plans to
update packages as soon
as new stable nginx versions are released.
To add nginx yum repository fnginx.repo file has to be created in
/etc/yum.cond.d/ directory.
In CentOS case nginx.repo should look like:

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

In RHEL case :

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/rhel/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

For apt repositories /etc/apt/sources.list have to be appended.
For Ubuntu 10.04 with:

deb Index of /packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx
deb-src Index of /packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx

For Debian6:

deb Index of /packages/debian/ squeeze nginx
deb-src Index of /packages/debian/ squeeze nginx

You may report package bugs to the mailing list, directly to me or on
http://trac.nginx.org.

Sergey_B · August 24, 2011, 4:48pm

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:22:58 +0400, Sergey B. wrote:

Hi,

We have created apt and yum repositories for nginx users on Linux.
They are available on Index of /packages/
for CentOS/RHEL 5 and 6, Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian 6. There are plans
to update packages as soon
as new stable nginx versions are released.

Hi,

There are already “official” packages for Debian, and therefore also
Ubuntu…
What is the difference?

Sergey_B · August 25, 2011, 10:52am

On 24.08.2011, at 18:47, [email protected] wrote:

There are already “official” packages for Debian, and therefore also Ubuntu…
What is the difference?

All these packages was built with same configure options, with
all standard modules (except modules depend on additional
libraries like geoip or xslt) and without third-party modules.
Each linux distribution has own release cycle, own policy,
so we have several native nginx packages for major
linux distribution built with different options and sometimes
quite old. It is convenient to build last stable version of
nginx with same parameters and with most of standard modules,
first of all from support point of view both for us and, i hope,
for nginx users.
As for debian and ubuntu you need to switch to unstable
or backports repository to get a fresh nginx version and this is not
what most users want, for example, on production.
Nevertheless nobody intend to compete with linux packagers,
these package are not “better” then official ones, they are more
predictable

Sergey_B · August 25, 2011, 11:42am

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:51, Sergey B. [email protected] wrote:

It is convenient to build last stable version of
nginx with same parameters and with most of standard modules,

Meaning you created yet another repository with packages configured
according to what you thing are the best choices. What are they? Which
modules? What’s after --configure? And can i add other modules at
runtime or disable existing ones?

Otherwise, i still prefer compiling from source, but that’s me.

Nice to have the packages straight from the source though, instead of
through a distro.

Cheers,
Nuno

–
“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”

Sergey_B · August 25, 2011, 11:14am

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:51:16 +0400, Sergey B. wrote:

[…] It is convenient to build last stable version of
nginx with same parameters and with most of standard modules,
first of all from support point of view both for us and, i hope,
for nginx users.

I’m completely agree !

As for debian and ubuntu you need to switch to unstable
or backports repository to get a fresh nginx version and this is not
what most users want, for example, on production.

Yes, you’re right. This is another debate, but I think switching to
testing repo is good, since testing version is now almost considered as
stable.

Sergey_B · August 25, 2011, 12:00pm

On 25.08.2011, at 13:41, Nuno Magalhes wrote:

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:51, Sergey B. [email protected] wrote:

It is convenient to build last stable version of
nginx with same parameters and with most of standard modules,

Meaning you created yet another repository with packages configured
according to what you thing are the best choices. What are they? Which
modules? What’s after --configure?

    ./configure \
            --prefix=/etc/nginx/ \
            --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \
            --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
            --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \
            --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \
            --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \
            --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock \
            --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp

–http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp
–http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp
–http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwcgi_temp
–http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp
–user=nginx
–group=nginx
–with-http_ssl_module
–with-http_realip_module
–with-http_addition_module
–with-http_sub_module
–with-http_dav_module
–with-http_flv_module
–with-http_gzip_static_module
–with-http_random_index_module
–with-http_secure_link_module
–with-http_stub_status_module
–with-mail
–with-mail_ssl_module
–with-file-aio
–with-ipv6

srpm and debian source package are also available on mentioned link.

And can i add other modules at
runtime or disable existing ones?

No, nginx do not support dynamic modules right now

Sergey_B · August 25, 2011, 1:47pm

I’ll just stick with the Ubuntu PPA packages as mentioned here:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Install

Sergey_B · August 25, 2011, 7:13pm

On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 13:22 +0400, Sergey B. wrote:

Hi,

We have created apt and yum repositories for nginx users on Linux. They are
available on Index of /packages/
for CentOS/RHEL 5 and 6, Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian 6.

I have updated the wiki with this info:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Install

Is there a particular reason there are both CentOS and RHEL
repositories? To the best of my knowledge, CentOS = RHEL.

Regards,
Cliff

Sergey_B · August 26, 2011, 1:00pm

Hi!

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 13:22, Sergey B. [email protected] wrote:

[nginx]
[skip]
gpgcheck=0
Maybe it will be better to sign provided RPMs?

–
Boris D…

Sergey_B · August 26, 2011, 9:27am

On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Cliff W. wrote:

I have updated the wiki with this info:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Install

Thank you.

Is there a particular reason there are both CentOS and RHEL
repositories? To the best of my knowledge, CentOS = RHEL.

Sure, one repository is a symlink to another at present. Two paths
is an insurance against differences in the future, though they are
hardly
probable. And since i am building and testing rpms on centos it is
unfair
to name it rhel only.

Sergey_B · August 26, 2011, 1:04pm

FYI… RHEL 6 looks for repo’s by default in a 6Server directory, not
6.

http://nginx.org/packages/rhel/6Server/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - “The requested URL returned error: 404”
Trying other mirror.

I changed my yum file, but just an FYI.

Sergey_B · August 26, 2011, 2:03pm

On 26.08.2011, at 14:59, Boris D. wrote:

Hi!

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 13:22, Sergey B. [email protected] wrote:

[nginx]
[skip]
gpgcheck=0
Maybe it will be better to sign provided RPMs?

rpms are signed already by the key with
fingerprint 573B FD6B 3D8F BC64 1079 A6AB ABF5 BD82 7BD9 BF62
uid nginx signing key [email protected]

you can get public one from keyserver (by gpg --recv-key 7BD9BF62) and
import it
with rpm --import. Without public key import gpgcheck=1 would create
more problems
then it would solve.

Sergey_B · August 26, 2011, 8:19pm

One small suggestion for nginx.conf. Rather than using:

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*;

I’d suggest

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

This prevents backup/temporary files that are typically created by
editors from being processed as valid configuration (e.g. default~,
#default#, etc).

Regards,
Cliff

Sergey_B · August 30, 2011, 8:28pm

Hi!
1.0.6 is still not there, though it is avaible for a day already.
When I tried to build it myself, I’ve got a error:
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat
`/home/boris/rpmbuild/SOURCES/nginx.vh.default’: No such file or
directory
The same problem is with files logrotate (which is renamed to
nginx.logrotate) and nginx.vh.ssl.
Please, check your SRPM correctness.

–
Boris D…

Sergey_B · August 27, 2011, 7:30am

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:13 AM, [email protected] wrote:

or backports repository to get a fresh nginx version and this is not
what most users want, for example, on production.

Yes, you’re right. This is another debate, but I think switching to testing
repo is good, since testing version is now almost considered as stable.

Since 2004 nginx latest development version has been in production for
me

Thank you for creating this repo, I will be adding it on Monday.

Stefan

Sergey_B · August 31, 2011, 12:08pm

On 26.08.2011, at 22:18, Cliff W. wrote:

#default#, etc).
I agree, It makes sense to replace * with *.conf. Added in 1.0.6.

There may be the situation when you have not touched default nginx.conf,
so it would be upgraded, but config files without .conf suffix were
added
to conf.d dir, and they would not be included after upgrade. I have no
idea how
to fix it with post/pre install scripts correctly, so check your configs
after upgrade.

Sergey_B · August 31, 2011, 3:53pm

It’d be nice to have symlinks for other flavors of RHEL, such as SL
(Scientyfic Linux) and CL (Cloud Linux). They should work as RHEL or
CentOS, but .list file must be modified.

Posted at Nginx Forum:

Sergey_B · August 31, 2011, 2:17pm

On 30.08.2011, at 22:27, Boris D. wrote:

Hi!
1.0.6 is still not there, though it is avaible for a day already.

I have uploaded 1.0.6 rpm and deb today. Thank you for noting
bug in srpm, I upload fixed version too.