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Date:      11 Dec 2001 09:29:05 -0000
From:      Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   ports/32692: Update www/mod_backhand to 1.2.1
Message-ID:  <20011211092905.97014.qmail@mat.tgd.net>

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>Number:         32692
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Update www/mod_backhand to 1.2.1
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 11 01:30:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sean Chittenden
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mat.tgd.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Tue Nov 20 01:19:38 PST 2001 root@mat.tgd.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAT i386


	
>Description:
	mod_backhand needs to be updated latest release.  pkg-comment && description
	have been updated too.
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
	cd www/mod_backhand && patch -p0 < patch

--- Makefile.orig	Mon Dec 10 23:33:22 2001
+++ Makefile	Mon Dec 10 22:21:54 2001
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	mod_backhand
-PORTVERSION=	1.2.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.2.1
 CATEGORIES=	www
 MASTER_SITES=	ftp://ftp.cnds.jhu.edu/pub/backhand/
 
--- pkg-comment.orig	Mon Dec 10 23:34:39 2001
+++ pkg-comment	Mon Dec 10 23:35:52 2001
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Apache module that allows seamless redirection of HTTP requests
+Apache module that allows seamless redirection and load balancing of HTTP requests
--- pkg-descr.orig	Tue Dec 11 00:34:33 2001
+++ pkg-descr	Tue Dec 11 00:52:25 2001
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-mod_backhand is project that allows seamless redirection
-of HTTP requests from one web server to another. This
-redirection can be used to target machines with under-utilized
-resources, thus providing fine-grained, per-request load balancing
-of web requests. 
+mod_backhand is a project that allows load balancing through seemless
+HTTP proxying from one web server to another.  This proxying is used
+to evenly distribute the load of a site across multiple machines to
+that way under-utilized resources are utilized to their fullest, thus
+providing fine-grained, per-request HTTP load balancing for a cluster.
 
 WWW: http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/
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