Re: [webmin-devel] problem with extraroot

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:12, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> [Jamie, I sent you this a couple of weeks ago and got no response.  Now 
> your ja...@we... address seems to be bouncing altogether.]

That's because it is actually jca...@we... :-)

> Dear Jamie,
> 
> Thanks for adding the extraroot functionality to recent versions of webmin. 
> There is one problem:  many third party modules have code which looks like
> 
> do "../web-lib,pl";
> 
> Which obviously won't work if web-lib.pl is in /usr/share/webmin and the module 
> was installed into /usr/local/share/webmin.
> 
> One workaround is to symlink all the important libraries into the extraroot but 
> is there a better way?

No, symlinking is the proper and only way to do it .. it's a bit of a
hack, but I couldn't think of any other way that would remain compatible
with existing modules.

 - Jamie