Paul Bijnens schrieb: >> Why not implement some check-routine into Amanda that checks for the >> installed tar-release and gives a WARNING if a well-known problematic >> release is found? > > That would give a lot of false positives. > > RedHat for example backports important bugfixes to earlier versions > of programs. And while the "tar --version" here says "1.14" > Redhad has its own numbering scheme found by "rpm -q tar", resulting > in "tar-1.14-9.RHEL4", on my machine. And that version has all the > known critical bugs fixed, included the one above.
Ok, then it has to get pointed out more clearly at installation-time that the user has to check for a proper release by himself or something. Users don't check the docs for problems they don't have/see, most of them even don't check the docs if they actually have/see a problem ;-) Stefan.
