Trying to downgrade Apache 2.4 to 2.2 on RHEL7 for QA group.

heckyeahcool · 10-30-2017, 01:24 PM

AS the title says, I received a weird request from our QA group and have been trying to downgrade/install apache 2.2.* on RHEL 7.3. I got this working by installing from source, however, when running systemctl status httpd, it says httpd.service is not present and did not install as a normal yum installation would.

I then tried installing httpd 2.4 via yum, then mounted the RHEL 6.8 dvd and tried downgrading to Apache 2.2 that way but got a lot of errors.

Is this even possible what I am trying to do?

Code:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: apr-util-1.3.9-3.el6_0.1.i686 (InstallMedia)
           Requires: libdb-4.7.so
Error: Package: glibc-2.12-1.192.el6.i686 (InstallMedia)
           Requires: glibc-common = 2.12-1.192.el6
           Installed: glibc-common-2.17-157.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.3)
               glibc-common = 2.17-157.el7
           Available: glibc-common-2.12-1.192.el6.x86_64 (InstallMedia)
               glibc-common = 2.12-1.192.el6
Error: Package: httpd-2.2.15-53.el6.x86_64 (InstallMedia)
           Requires: httpd-tools = 2.2.15-53.el6
           Installed: httpd-tools-2.4.6-45.el7.x86_64 (@InstallMedia)
               httpd-tools = 2.4.6-45.el7
           Available: httpd-tools-2.2.15-53.el6.x86_64 (InstallMedia)
               httpd-tools = 2.2.15-53.el6
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

TB0ne · 10-30-2017, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by heckyeahcool

AS the title says, I received a weird request from our QA group and have been trying to downgrade/install apache 2.2.* on RHEL 7.3. I got this working by installing from source, however, when running systemctl status httpd, it says httpd.service is not present and did not install as a normal yum installation would.

I then tried installing httpd 2.4 via yum, then mounted the RHEL 6.8 dvd and tried downgrading to Apache 2.2 that way but got a lot of errors. Is this even possible what I am trying to do?

Code:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: apr-util-1.3.9-3.el6_0.1.i686 (InstallMedia)
           Requires: libdb-4.7.so
Error: Package: glibc-2.12-1.192.el6.i686 (InstallMedia)
           Requires: glibc-common = 2.12-1.192.el6
           Installed: glibc-common-2.17-157.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.3)
               glibc-common = 2.17-157.el7
           Available: glibc-common-2.12-1.192.el6.x86_64 (InstallMedia)
               glibc-common = 2.12-1.192.el6
Error: Package: httpd-2.2.15-53.el6.x86_64 (InstallMedia)
           Requires: httpd-tools = 2.2.15-53.el6
           Installed: httpd-tools-2.4.6-45.el7.x86_64 (@InstallMedia)
               httpd-tools = 2.4.6-45.el7
           Available: httpd-tools-2.2.15-53.el6.x86_64 (InstallMedia)
               httpd-tools = 2.2.15-53.el6
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Possible? Sure. Worth the time? Nope, not when you can downgrade using yum:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/29617

..but only if you're paying for RHEL (you are, right??) But I'd first ask your QA team what they were trying to accomplish and why. Just blindly doing something like this may not be a good thing. If they're just wanting to test some pages with an old version of Apache, it would be more worthwhile to spin up a virtual box to let them play on.