Hi,
I would like to be able to use gnutar (gtar) on an amanda 2.4.2p2 client
running OpenBSD 2.9. Is there a problem with OpenBSD running amandad
running gtar? Are there configuration options I should include when
compiling amanda to get Gnutar running on an OpenBSD client? Has anyone
else had experience running amanda on an OpenBSD machine?
Make-ing the amanda configuration does not include the GNUTAR option,
even when explicitly included (as #./configure
--with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/gtar). The 'tell' is; when amandad gets
called and makes the amandad.DATE file in /tmp/amanda, the amandad.DATE
file does not have that GNUTAR="/usr/local/bin/gtar" entry in it's list
of options.
Installation on the other clients have produced knowledge of gnutar, even
when not explicitly configured. However, none of the other clients are
OpenBSD (2 FreeBSD and a RH Linux).
OpenBSD includes a port for gtar, so I don't think the problem is with
OpenBSD itself.
There are other gnutar options that could be included in the compilation,
but I'm not sure what they do. --with-gnutar-listdir=DIR and
--with-gnu-ld. Has anyone used these options?
Rewriting the calcsize program might work, but that seems awfully deep to
go for Gnutar. The calcsize is what returns the "GNUTAR is not
available on this system." error.
I would really like to be able to use the functionality of tar with my
downloads.
Thanks in advance,
Lalo
