Re: [webmin-devel] CentOS 4 added to Webmin detection list?

[John H. <web...@ew...>]

Brian wrote:

>
>That's great! Thanks everyone. This is simply one of
>the most responsive user communities in Open Source.
>
>Brian
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>
I have switched off to using Dag for my CentOS/Webmin updates. He does a 
few tweaks specific to the OS. He does run behind the official realeases 
by varying times. The beauty though, I have him listed in my yum.conf 
file, so yum update pulls the latest dag release when available. (this 
will pull some other updates as well, but I've been exceptionally happy 
with all of Dag's work and trust it to production servers)

One does have to be warned though, if you are using the RPM from the 
webmin site, then switch to Dag's will save all of your module configs 
and replace them with new configs. So, you either get to go hash through 
to find the changes, or basically start new with all the module 
configs.. a bit of a pain, but I'm sure it was done for some good reason.

So, just be prepared should you go this route. yum will provide a list 
of all the files saved and replaced during the update. User configs are 
left alone and vadmin configs are left alone as it is an additional 
module installed within webmin and not in the dag rpm.

This would hold true for all versions of EL3 and EL4 and likely EL2.1, 
for CentOS, Redhat, Whitebox, etc.

Best,
John Hinton