Amanda 2.4.2p2 has been in the OpenBSD ports tree since 2.9.
You can either use the port (misc/amanda), or look at the port makefile
to see the configuration options.

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 12:22, Lalo Castro wrote:
> 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
> 
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Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com)

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