Quoting "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Maurice O'Regan wrote:
someone siggested using a newew version from 'unstable'.
I'm the Debian maintainer of webmin btw.
How do I do that ?
Actually, I should have asked first. Is there any particular reason
you "need" the very latest version? 1.180 is perfectly adequate you
know.
I have to disagree. I recently upgraded a server at school from Woody
to Sarge
and installed webmin. I have had a number of problems. Specifically:
* the update/dist-upgrade cycle fails and must be corrected from the command
line
* there are a number of pages that "hang" and then give a not found error, but
when you back up, everything is as it should be (specifically, adding a new
user and adding a shorewall rule).
This weeked I will look into it and file detailed bug reports that
include step
by step how to reproduce. Don't get me wrong, webmin is an excellent package,
but it still has some issues.
Search the archives of this list for pointers on "Apt pinning" if you
absolutely must mix and match stable and unstable packages. But if
you are a newbie as it appears you are, you should think long and
hard before doing something that could compromise the stability of
your system.
I totally agree with this. This "grab the unstable version" advice I
frequently
see is not very wise. A site like backports.org is the best thing a
newbie can
do in terms of getting updated software for a server. Even then, it requires
some diligence on the part of the admin.
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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