Re: [webmin-devel] packaged vs local modules

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

On Sun, 7 Jun 2004, Jamie Cameron wrote:

> Yes.. I presume you only create .deb packages for the standard modules,
> and not for any third-party modules?
>

well there's a couple of third-party modules--exim and snort.  And i'm
missing a couple of standard modules that don't apply or deal with
obsolete software such as sgiexports or  majordomo but by and large yes.
There are some other people who maintain packages of other third-party
modules though.

> > > which seems
> > > to be the core problem here.
> > >
> >
> > Also what about cloned modules?  Currently rpm and dpkg can't deal with
> > those at all.
>
> That's a whole other problem :-(
>
> The current method via which cloning is done is not optimal, as clones
> are not stored in /etc/webmin as they should be. Perhaps introducing
> support for multiple root directories could help solve this too, but
> creating clones as links under some /etc/webmin/clones directory, rather
> than links in /usr/libexec/webmin ..
>

It seems to me the multiple root idea is the cleanest all around.  But in
the end it is what is easiest for you that counts.


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