[CentOS-docs] Comments on draft TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo page

Sat May 30 06:01:50 UTC 2009
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 21:43 +0100, Lucian at lastdot.org wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:58 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 22:44 +0400, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote:
> >> What RPM? WebMin RPM? That will make you loose repository automatical
> >> updates advantage.
> >>
> >> 2009/5/29 JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>:
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 15:31 -0400, David Dreggors wrote:
> >> >> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> >> >> > Apropos http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallWebminRepo
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Suggested changes (mostly nit-picky :-) ...
> >> >> >
> >> >> I had another suggestion, and this fits in the nit picky range as well :)
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> You have the user paste all those lines into a file and the make it
> >> >> executable and then run it... a lot of un-needed steps.
> >> >>
> >> >> Try this, (I have tested and it works great):
> >> >>
> >> >> Copy this code [without the <code> tags but do include the parenthesis ]
> >> >>
> >> >> <code>
> >> >> (echo "[Webmin]
> >> >> name=Webmin Distribution Neutral
> >> >> baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
> >> >> enabled=1" >/etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo
> >> >> rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
> >> >> yum -y install webmin)
> >> >> </code>
> >> >>
> >> >> Now instruct them to paste this right in the console, and press enter...
> >> >> done!
> >> > ----
> >> > Taht's a lil silly... Why not use wget http://....url/..rpm then execute
> >> > the rpm to install it? All the code is nice for advanced users but it
> >> > needs to be else where. 50% of linux users out here don't know what
> >> > php-cli is...
> >> >
> >> > JohnStanley
> >> >
> > You did not bother to read the next mail I sent regarding this?
> 
> Well, I did and to be frank I did not understood what your problem is.
> Care to put it in a more human readable "format"?
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Alrighty, you asked you shall receive! Number one a regular user can't
copy and paste the above code and execute it unless they become root.
2. I looked at the above code and said there is a better way to do that
via using "wget http:\\ | rpm -Uvh webmin-release.rpm.
3. There is "NO" "Webmin Release" rpm so that will not happen. At least
I did not find one at the webmin sight.
4. Is it not standard to have a yum release package in a yum repo? I
thought it was.
5.In theory if the URL for the repo changes but guess what??? No
webmin-release to reflect that change. 
6. Now let me make this very clear. I am in no way saying it is a bad
article. At least you are contributing something to the more advanced
CentOS users.

Questions?

JohnStanley