On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:28:52PM -0500, Guy Dallaire wrote: > I've just discovered that tar 1.14 might actually be buggy. On many of > my linux boxes (clients and server) I have gnu tar 1.14 or 1.13.25 > > I'm understanding that I should instead download the latest tar > version (or 1.15) and install this in /usr/local/bin and use this > instead of the system's default in /usr/bin
> I will only have to redo the config using > --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/tar on my linux box and then re-make > amanda using the same parameter I used originally. Alternatively, you could just rebuild the tar RPM for the new version, upgrade it, and leave Amanda alone. > The question I have is: > > When I will do the "make install" at the end, will it overwrite my > amanda configuration files and disklists etc ? No, make install doesn't put anything in the config directory.
