Fair call... though it still leaves Ed in the dark. :(
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:01:23 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Matt Bottrell wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 03:50:54 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ed Clarke wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone have an RPM for usermin that works with Centos 4.0? I got
> > > > the webmin RPM from the DAG repository but usermin isn't there and the
> > > > "standard" RPM from sourceforge doesn't install.
> > >
> > > I'm interested to add it though :)
> >
> > Why not grab the SPEC from SourceForge....
> > Grab the tar.gz and build it?
> >
> > Refer to other usermin.src.rpms for details. ;)
>
> Because if it's similar to webmin, the official SPEC files are horrible.
> On installation they move around files that are not part of the RPM and on
> uninstallation they remove those files instead of letting RPM take care of
> everything. (summary: they run an installer tool in %post and remove
> things they know about in %postun)
>
> That's why there's also a big incompatibility between my package (that
> does it right) and the official package (that I tell people never to use).
> I've been in contact with the webmin people and they agree, but haven't
> fixed it. (Because it is very hard to fix at this point)
>
> The Webmin installation process (and I expect the Usermin installation to
> be no better) are simply not designed for packaging. If you need more
> details, take the official SPEC and my SPEC and simply compare :)
>
> Kind regards,
> -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
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