[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#642604: Bug#642604: lighttpd always binds to IPv6 on TCP port 80

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net> wrote:
>  1) You are forced to have IPv6 on, even when "server.use-ipv6" is set to
> disabled

server.use-ipv6 is deprecated (and might be broken)

>  2) You are forced to listen on port 80 on the IPv6 interface, whether you
> want to or not (for the record I don't want to, as squid is listening there
> instead)
>
> Having to edit lighttpd.conf to remove that one line is a problem for those
> of us using an automated configuration tool like Puppet, as it means we have
> to duplicate the default config file in our repos, minus this one line.
>
> Could I please request that this line be moved into its own script in
> /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/ instead, so that enabling or disabling IPv6
> support can be toggled on and off with a symlink, like the other options?
> This way the default config file would not have to be altered to change IPv6
> options.

Moving it into conf-available would be ok, but it'd still need to be
enabled by default.

Olaf