Bug 735020

Summary:	www-servers/nginx is missing a USE flag for building --with-stream only
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	david van rood <genewitch>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description david van rood 2020-08-01 09:06:51 UTC

https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/tcp-udp-load-balancer/ see "prerequisites"

per the ebuild for nginx-1.19.1 in order to enable --with-stream build option you have to enable one of the NGINX_MODULES_STREAM flags, otherwise there is no way to simply turn on that build option.

nginx can handle streams without needing any of the other modules enabled. I got around this by enabling nginx_modules_stream_ssl_preread in package.use. the use case is to merely forward all traffic on a port to another port, even if the traffic is using SSL - bypassing the need to have SSL cert on the machine running nginx (no ssl termination); this is useful if you have a box hosting many domains/subdomains and want to reverse proxy to another host that, for instance, does not have a public IP.

without --with-stream build option, you cannot use the "stream { }" directive in the nginx config files

Suggestion then, is to have simply "stream" or "streams" as a use flag.

Thank you!