On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Steve Wray <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone suggest a distro that tracks Amanda upstream reasonably well? Ie > doesn't include bug-ridden versions in their stable releases...
I'm a Gentoo user, and they're up to date: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-backup/amanda Stefan is one of the maintainers there, which helps. FreeBSD is also on top of its stuff: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/amanda-server/ Fedora is reasonably up to date: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/amanda I checked Slackware, but their package browser has been down for as long as I can remember. I also checked OpenBSD, and they still have Amanda-2.4.5! *Now* I know why the OpenBSD guys at the users' group I went to were so critical of Amanda -- they haven't seen a remotely recent version! > Not that I'm accusing the Amanda people of releasing bug-ridden software but > hey we all make mistakes. Its the putting right that counts. Actually, if I can toot Jean-Louis' horn for a minute, we do release some pretty top-notch stuff, and it's mostly because Jean-Louis is amazingly attentive to details and compatibility. I think that this may enable distros to keep old versions - if users never complain about bugs in 2.5.1, then why upgrade? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
