From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PtsJu-0005lN-9w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:54:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C5AD1C002; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f181.google.com (mail-px0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7AC1C002 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi3 with SMTP id 3so1137207pxi.40 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:53:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2xSE3YoUcK9imN6Wfz6MW7wesbgSV0ANm4BMXg05b0Q=; b=urECYPZD/oNRr7LxsrehD9+9ZLPErFzW0xYFTMyVZYPO61a+QBX0AOYgxa7YlPab4Y gm6vnZ2b8AMNGW0wzGj/iRMTR0ByRON5XuL9ilKU4ltBiy3XYgFe+Y+kp2yuDNXtcD8G fLqRNeeq/ggGmYdrqFylArmWDNvn3nOJtSq8M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=et5ZbmHZvhreVjIDNlHM85Z7Y8Mh8jTxj3kOeOmXogKi1J6zcE48QFH2D2OomhTpT4 x2U1cyA+veAAI/B7hKD0tN8J5dmvlalF6sjdBfLlckN7ltgLr4BroDp2qyAxG35C4/uj 0xwXrqCT9rsWsOecV3k8BjQ7ZVb9XPmI572AQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.188.19 with SMTP id l19mr3918133wff.199.1298857997357; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:53:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.161.19 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:53:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <201102260828.05801.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4D6914A3.9010005@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:53:17 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto From: Mike Gilbert To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ee5e461e7459599c49cd5976bb8a276d On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dale 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. Petten=C5=86 =C2=A0(10 Aug 2010) >> # =C2=A0on 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 >> >> :-) =C2=A0:-) >> > > Not going to beat a dead horse, but that is exactly one of the things it'= s > supposed to do. =C2=A0The program itself works great, it just doesn't mee= t 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