On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mark Shields <laebsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@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<flamee...@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
