Re: Update on Sarge Webmin?

["John Fleming" <john@wa9als.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Le" <zeroion@gmail.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: "John Fleming" <john@wa9als.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: Update on Sarge Webmin?


> On Apr 11, 2005 8:30 PM, John Fleming <john@wa9als.com> wrote:
> > I've searched archives back to December and don't find a "recent" brief
> > thread I remember about a bunch of Webmin modules disappearing from 
> > Sarge.
> > They are still missing, and I'd like to know where I can monitor what's
> > going on with those?
> >
> > A related question is how much could I muck up my system if I let my 
> > current
> > Webmin download and install a given module, or update Webmin itself?  I 
> > know
> > that I couldn't later use apt-get remove to remove it, but other than 
> > that
> > are there problems using Webmin itself to get individual modules or even
> > update webmin itself?
> >
> > Comments appreciated - John
>
> I would _highly_ recommend against allowing Webmin to upgrade itself
> if you wish to use the Debian Webmin packages.
>
> Recently, I allowed Webmin to update itself, believing that it'd allow
> me to use a newer version of Webmin. The Webmin upgrade was
> successful, but, a few weeks later, apt-get update upgraded the Webmin
> package, breaking everything. Luckily, I had a complete backup of my
> Webmin configuration files, so I purged Debian's packages, installed
> Webmin from source, and was up and running again.
>
> --Stephen Le

Thanks, Stephen - I was afraid that would be the answer.  So where can I 
monitor what's happening with the Webmin packages in Debian?



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