From: Mike Gilbert <floppymaster@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:53:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=tgVKPU5eLVB6Do02O2p0XeGG2atgVfUXxVAML@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinZxj3hJWKisCKq=1OaEHJdDxqXCYaJsphK1aDh@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mick wrote:
>>>
>>> Not related to the OP's question, but couldn't stop myself from asking:
>>>
>>> Why is/was webmin dropped from portage?
>>>
>>> I saw bug 348432 for webmin-1.530, but other than offering an ebuild it
>>> didn't
>>> say.
>>>
>>
>> From gentoo-dev:
>>
>> # Diego E. Pettenņ<flameeyes@gentoo.org> (10 Aug 2010)
>> # on behalf of QA team
>> #
>> # Breaks about any QA policy regarding not touching
>> # live filesystem as it writes to LVM configuration,
>> # cron configuration, current-running kernel modules, RPM
>> # library, ...
>> #
>> # Removal on 2010-10-09
>> app-admin/webmin
>>
>> That help?
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>>
>
> Not going to beat a dead horse, but that is exactly one of the things it's
> supposed to do. The program itself works great, it just doesn't meet the
> requirements of the Gentoo devs.
Diego didn't mask it because webmin itself modified config files; of
course that is what it is supposed to do. Rather, it was masked
because the ebuild itself was dodging the sandbox protection.
See Diego's blog for more info:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/08/20/there-s-something-about-webmin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-28 1:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-25 13:13 [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto James
2011-02-25 13:41 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-02-25 15:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Orlitzky
2011-02-26 0:43 ` Mark Shields
2011-02-26 8:28 ` Mick
2011-02-26 14:56 ` Dale
2011-02-26 16:28 ` Mick
2011-02-26 20:16 ` Marc Joliet
2011-02-28 1:43 ` Mark Shields
2011-02-28 1:53 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2011-02-28 15:45 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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