1. Webmin was updated to 1.480 but “package update” didn’t think I needed any updates, is this as intended?
Intended. Webmin goes out to the Webmin.com repos first, and a day or two later comes into the Virtualmin.com repos. Unless there is a security issue, in which case they go at the same time. Virtualmin.com repos get more QC testing, and we also let the community bang on it a little as well.
2. Apache has a small security hole, happens all the time, but the version of Apache in Virtualmin hasn’t been patched for it. This is okay, if it has and I just didn’t notice, but I didn’t upgrade Apache, and I am pretty sure it didn’t happen without me. So, when does the patch show up? What is considered “normal”
You’ll have to be more specific about what security issue you mean. You’ll also have to tell me what OS/version you’re running. Some systems we have nothing to do with the Apache package. Some, we rebuild with one option changed, and we try to track the OS updates very closely. If I missed one, I’d like to fix it. But, I have no idea where to look. We support over a dozen distros and versions…it’s hard to keep up sometimes.
3. Awstats is updated to 6.9, but virtualmin package shows only 6.8. Just for fun I updated it anyway, and things of course broke, so what is the wait time on this kind of issue? When do things get version updates?
What do you mean by “updated it anyway”? Updated from a third party repository? Updated from the OS stock repository? Again, I have no idea. We only provide AWstats packages on a couple of operating systems (CentOS/RHEL 4 and 5), and I rebuild the package from EPEL. So, I try to track the version in the EPEL repositories.
Which brings up the point that if you are on CentOS/RHEL, and you are feeling antsy about an old version of something, and you do want to update from some source other than our repository (assuming it’s a package we provide; and it’s not Apache, since it needs custom options), then EPEL is the place to get it. Other third party repositories will put things in possibly odd locations and lead to confusion on the part of Webmin…it just won’t know where to find the configuration files and such. It could also be broken. Third party repositories vary wildly in quality and consistency and in following packaging guidelines.
Anyway, I’m guessing a lot, since I don’t know your OS/version, so I don’t know what we provided, what version we’re currently shipping, or what version is the latest available.
