Re: [gentoo-dev] adapting webmin and usermin

[Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez <bass@gentoo.org>]

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On 05 Jun 2002 04:38:14 +0100
Chris Davies <c.davies@cdavies.org> wrote:

  |Hi,
  |
  |I've actually been doing just this for a couple of days now.. I'm not
  |really ready to go public with the resulting patch and ebuild but I
  |suppose this might be a good time to ask a few questions that come into
  |my head.
  |
  |1) I am currently using the directory /opt/webmin as an installation
  |dir. I appreciate that Gentoo wants to keep /opt for binaries only, and
  |that webmin does not technically qualify as a binary distribution, but
I
  |think it comes damn close. Does anyone agree/disagree with this view,
  |and if you disagree, where should webmin go?
  
/opt is a good choice, but i think that it can be best /var


  |2) SSL. Perl doesn't pay any attention to the ssl use flag as far as I
  |am aware, so my strategy has been to have Perl grab the SSL module from
  |CPAN if the use var is set, and then configure webmin with support for
  |same. Again, comments? Suggestions?

well if you can use the USE variable cool :)

  |3) What distribution should be chosen as a close approximation of
  |Gentoo. I choose Redhat 7.2 as my first guess, and then later upgraded
  |to .3 and I haven't noticed anything obviously broken, but extensive
  |testing would be required before I'd let this anywhere near portage.
  |Suggestions? Volunteers for testing? :)

i thinks that debian, slackware, o inclusive freebsd are more exact that
redhat

  |4) I presumed that Webmin should not automatically be started on boot,
  |that stuff should be handled by the user and whatever their preference
  |of inetd or xinetd is, is this the correct approach?

you can do a simple script to do it

  |5) License. Webmin uses a strange one, but not one that is restrictive.
  |I presume it is OK just to add an entry in Gentoo's Lisencing dir
  |specifically for Webmin and its kin.

yes, it can be usefull for others webmin products, like usermin.

when you finish with webmin, can be interesting adapt too usermin :)

contact with Maciek <maciek@borowka.net>, he wants to help :)


José Alberto Suárez López
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