On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 05:11:35PM -0400 or thereabouts, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, S.D.A. wrote: > > > OK I moved a couple of the configs over to '/etc/webmin/', > > >From where? 'usr/share/webmin' > > but it's still > > borked. Looks like I'm going back to the upstream package. :( > > > > If you really want to get to the bottom of this, you must give _complete_ > details of _every_ step you took. Or else it's going to be next to > impossible to find out what went on. Well, I moved them over from the default upstream directory <ie> '/usr/share/webmin' and restarted Webmin. Other than that, there isn't any other complete details. Anyway this isn't a big deal. I could start over from scratch, delete everything Webmin on the system and install the Debian package. This should work, no? > > I'll take another look at the Debian package, when it's been adopted, to > > see if it moves over the configuration files, when updating from the > > upstream version. > > > > A policy-compliant Debian package will never ever mess with your local > configuration guaranteed. So that's simply not going to happen. The > message you saw earlier about moving a previous webmin installation > refered to a previous Debian package installation. Computers are simply > not smart enough to deal with the near-infinite number of installation > possibilities outside the packaging system so Debian packages don't even > try. I assure you, that I didn't have a previous _Debian_ Webmin package on this system. I looked at the version via apt-file some time ago, and since the version was older, I grabbed the upstream package. > Oh and I was wrong and you were right about aptitude. You may want to > submit a wishlist bug asking for orphaned packages to be flagged. It's > probably easy to implement and sounds like a useful feature. Yes, I think so. -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thursday Oct 21 2004 07:11:01 PM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.
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