[webmin-devel] packaged vs local modules

[Jaldhar H. V. <ja...@de...>]

A big problem I have as the Debian packages of webmin/usermin is dealing
with locally installed modules.  The ability to install an updated WBM is
a good idea especially for the times when I fall behind in packaging but
it can also cause problems.  The package management system doesn't know if
you're going behind its back.  It can overwrite your stuff or not be aware
its installed.

I wonder if it would be possible to do something like perl does for
modules.  You can define installation spaces for core (comes with perl)
vendor (i.e. packaged by a distro) and site (for stuff you download
yoursef from CPAN.)  Webmin would probably only need two tiers.  How hard
would it be to have miniserv look for modules in two places?  What else
would need to be changed?

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <ja...@de...>
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