Webmin in extras

Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com
Sat Sep 16 20:49:11 UTC 2006


> Correct me if I'm wrong. I run Webmin on all my Linux machines, including all
> the Fedora boxes. I just install the noarch version from their website. But,
> there's webmin, and then, there's all the modules. To maintain a version for
> Fedora Extras, it would require not only keeping up with the main program,
> but keeping all the modules current with current versions of the things those
> modules are meant to control - not an insignificant undertaking. I remember
> there was an issue once with incompatibility between the Apache module and
> the version of Apache being delivered with Fedora, that caused some problems.
> --

Yeah, I made it through about step 2 of 8 to get it added - looks like
the package itself is going to take some work, and I haven't even
looked at the modules yet.

I find webmin pretty damn handy  - esp on headless machines.  Don't
know if I like it enough to become a maintainer, though....

Chris




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