webadmin-devel

New module install problems

[John L. <jo...@pc...>]

Hello,

I am developing a new webmin module for the Shorewall firewall. 

All seems to be going well except that the module will not install
properly through
the webmin module installer.

I get the following error message

Failed to install module from /tmp/shorewall.wbm : Module images is
missing a module.info file 

Why does it think the images directory is a seperatr module. Or at least
that is what I
think the error message is teling me. I have looked at the code od the
installer and
cannot see what is causing it to not like this module.

Can anyone assist please

John Lodge
jo...@pc...

Re: New module install problems

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Does the module untar into a 'shorewall' directory?  It sounds like 
images is a toplevel directory in your tarball, perhaps, with all the 
other stuff being outside of a directory.  Just a guess...

John Lodge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am developing a new webmin module for the Shorewall firewall. 
> 
> All seems to be going well except that the module will not install
> properly through
> the webmin module installer.
> 
> I get the following error message
> 
> Failed to install module from /tmp/shorewall.wbm : Module images is
> missing a module.info file 
> 
> Why does it think the images directory is a seperatr module. Or at least
> that is what I
> think the error message is teling me. I have looked at the code od the
> installer and
> cannot see what is causing it to not like this module.
> 
> Can anyone assist please
> 
> John Lodge
> jo...@pc...

-- 
Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
http://www.swelltech.com
Web Caching Appliances and Support

Re: New module install problems

[John L. <jo...@pc...>]

Joe Cooper wrote:
> 
> Does the module untar into a 'shorewall' directory?  It sounds like
> images is a toplevel directory in your tarball, perhaps, with all the
> other stuff being outside of a directory.  Just a guess...
> 
> John Lodge wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am developing a new webmin module for the Shorewall firewall.
> >
> > All seems to be going well except that the module will not install
> > properly through
> > the webmin module installer.
> >
> > I get the following error message
> >
> > Failed to install module from /tmp/shorewall.wbm : Module images is
> > missing a module.info file
> >
> > Why does it think the images directory is a seperatr module. Or at least
> > that is what I
> > think the error message is teling me. I have looked at the code od the
> > installer and
> > cannot see what is causing it to not like this module.
> >
> > Can anyone assist please
> >
> > John Lodge
> > jo...@pc...
> 
> --
> Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
> http://www.swelltech.com
> Web Caching Appliances and Support
Joe,

Thanks for the reply

The tarball consists of all the normal perl stuff, an images directory ,
a lang directory and a help directory.
Addtitionally the tarball consists of a config, config.info and a
module.info at the top level.

This I understood was the proper shape for a webmin module tarball.

Re: New module install problems

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

John Lodge wrote:
> Joe Cooper wrote:
> 
>>Does the module untar into a 'shorewall' directory?  It sounds like
>>images is a toplevel directory in your tarball, perhaps, with all the
>>other stuff being outside of a directory.  Just a guess...

> Joe,
> 
> Thanks for the reply
> 
> The tarball consists of all the normal perl stuff, an images directory ,
> a lang directory and a help directory.
> Addtitionally the tarball consists of a config, config.info and a
> module.info at the top level.
> 
> This I understood was the proper shape for a webmin module tarball.

I meant is all of this stuff in its own directory called shorewall?

For example, one of my modules untars like this:

squidreports/
squidreports/config.info
squidreports/config
squidreports/images/
squidreports/images/icon.gif
squidreports/lang/
squidreports/lang/en
squidreports/config-redhat-linux
squidreports/reports-lib.pl
squidreports/index.cgi
squidreports/module.info
squidreports/reportview.cgi
squidreports/calamaris.cron
squidreports/help/
squidreports/help/reports.html

Notice everything goes under the squidreports subdirectory when 
untarring.  Your problem looks like it might be due to everything being 
'loose', like so:

config.info
config
images/
images/icon.gif
lang/
lang/en
config-redhat-linux
reports-lib.pl
index.cgi
module.info
reportview.cgi
calamaris.cron
help/
help/reports.html

This won't work.

Again, I'm guessing, but that's what it looks like from here.
-- 
Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
http://www.swelltech.com
Web Caching Appliances and Support