On 31 May 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > I downloaded tar-1.13.tar.gz from http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html
> > Is this the right version of gtar?
>
> No, see docs/INSTALL.
>
> > I found this package gives me tar instead of gtar executable.
>
> This doesn't matter. Amanda's configure looks for gnutar, gtar and
> tar.
I have a suggestion related to this. Get a known-good version of gnutar
and install it somewhere specific to amanda, like
/usr/local/amanda/libexec/gnutar, and explicitly tell configure to use
this path rather than let it find tar somewhere else. This avoids the
problem of a good tar being later replaced with a bad tar during an
upgrade or patch installation. In my case, I'm still using gnutar-1.12 on
all my amanda clients.
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