Hi, I couldn't for the life of me find an ebuild for haproxy (see URL field). I wrote one myself and attached it. It's not great but it does the job. I'd be happy for feedback to improve it or one of you can take it over. It's all good. Here's the spiel: HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing. Supporting tens of thousands of connections is clearly realistic with todays hardware. Its mode of operation makes its integration into existing architectures very easy and riskless, while still offering the possibility not to expose fragile web servers to the Net. Considering you have pound and other load balancers in www-servers, I think that's the best category for it.
Created attachment 88632 [details] haproxy ebuild, first attempt ;)
Created attachment 88633 [details] init script to be placed in the ebuild's files directory
Created attachment 88634 [details] config file to be placed in the ebuild's files directory
Added to the tree, as net-proxy/haproxy, with the following changes: - use LDFLAGS set in /etc/make.conf - don't install haproxy.cfg. Since we don't have a reasonable default, it should be created by user, not by ebuild. Also, it doesn't make sense to create a directory (/etc/haproxy) when it will contains only one file, therefore I moved configuration file to /etc/haproxy.cfg - install configuration examples in doc directory Thanks for the initial version. I've put your name in Changelog but without email address. I hate these gentoo@foo.bar addresses :-|
