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On 05 Jun 2002 04:38:14 +0100 |
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Chris Davies <c.davies@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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|Hi, |
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|I've actually been doing just this for a couple of days now.. I'm not |
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|really ready to go public with the resulting patch and ebuild but I |
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|suppose this might be a good time to ask a few questions that come into |
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|my head. |
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|1) I am currently using the directory /opt/webmin as an installation |
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|dir. I appreciate that Gentoo wants to keep /opt for binaries only, and |
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|that webmin does not technically qualify as a binary distribution, but |
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I |
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|think it comes damn close. Does anyone agree/disagree with this view, |
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|and if you disagree, where should webmin go? |
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/opt is a good choice, but i think that it can be best /var |
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|2) SSL. Perl doesn't pay any attention to the ssl use flag as far as I |
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|am aware, so my strategy has been to have Perl grab the SSL module from |
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|CPAN if the use var is set, and then configure webmin with support for |
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|same. Again, comments? Suggestions? |
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well if you can use the USE variable cool :) |
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|3) What distribution should be chosen as a close approximation of |
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|Gentoo. I choose Redhat 7.2 as my first guess, and then later upgraded |
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|to .3 and I haven't noticed anything obviously broken, but extensive |
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|testing would be required before I'd let this anywhere near portage. |
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|Suggestions? Volunteers for testing? :) |
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i thinks that debian, slackware, o inclusive freebsd are more exact that |
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redhat |
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|4) I presumed that Webmin should not automatically be started on boot, |
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|that stuff should be handled by the user and whatever their preference |
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|of inetd or xinetd is, is this the correct approach? |
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you can do a simple script to do it |
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|5) License. Webmin uses a strange one, but not one that is restrictive. |
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|I presume it is OK just to add an entry in Gentoo's Lisencing dir |
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|specifically for Webmin and its kin. |
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yes, it can be usefull for others webmin products, like usermin. |
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when you finish with webmin, can be interesting adapt too usermin :) |
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contact with Maciek <maciek@×××××××.net>, he wants to help :) |
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José Alberto Suárez López |
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<bass@g.o> |
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<bass@×××××.org> |
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<josealberto.suarez@××××××××××.es> |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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http://www.adala.org |
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http://bass.dnsalias.com |
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http://gimp.es.gnome.org |
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