>
> These are different dir locations than amanda 3.3.4 which I've been using
> until now. Is this b/c I've built from source or is that a change effecting
> rpm's too (not that it seems likely they'd be different I figure).
>
> The default user and group is now amanda:backup instead of amandabackup:disk.
> If I want to use this server with existing clients running 3.3.4 is this ok?
> Or should I rebuild with user amandabackup:disk? Or upgrade clients to 3.3.7?
>
We have been rebuilding the RPMs from the SRPM (with some minor changes) for
RHEL7 (and CentOS6 and RHEL6). The spec file that ships with the source RPM
specifically creates two variables:
%define amanda_user amandabackup
%define amanda_group disk
In the build section it then defines:
%build
%define config_user %{amanda_user}
%define config_group %{amanda_group}
The configure then specifically calls out those users:
--with-user=%{config_user} \
--with-group=%{config_group} \
So, RPM versions use amandabackup:disk. I would think that’s the ‘official’
default?
Directories are also specifically defined but we make some changes but the only
difference for us is that we change:
-%define PERLSITELIB %(eval "`perl -V:installsitelib`"; echo
$installsitelib)
+%define PERLSITELIB %perl_privlib
This keeps amanda from installing anything into /usr/local.
# Configure directories:
%define PREFIX /usr
%define EPREFIX %{PREFIX}
%define BINDIR %{EPREFIX}/bin
%define SBINDIR %{EPREFIX}/sbin
%define LIBEXECDIR %{EPREFIX}/libexec
%define AMLIBEXECDIR %{LIBEXECDIR}/amanda
%define DATADIR %{PREFIX}/share
%define SYSCONFDIR /etc
%define LOCALSTATEDIR /var
%define AMANDATES %{AMANDAHOMEDIR}/amandates
%define AMANDAHOMEDIR %{LOCALSTATEDIR}/lib/amanda
%ifarch x86_64
%define LIBDIR %{EPREFIX}/lib64
%else
%define LIBDIR %{EPREFIX}/lib
%endif
%define AMLIBDIR %{LIBDIR}/amanda
%define INCLUDEDIR %{PREFIX}/include
%define MANDIR %{DATADIR}/man
%define LOGDIR /var/log/amanda
%define PERLSITELIB %perl_privlib
%define AMDATADIR /var/lib/amanda
# Installation directories:
%define ROOT_SBINDIR %{buildroot}/%{SBINDIR}
%define ROOT_LIBEXECDIR %{buildroot}/%{LIBEXECDIR}
%define ROOT_DATADIR %{buildroot}/%{DATADIR}
%define ROOT_LOCALSTATEDIR %{buildroot}/%{LOCALSTATEDIR}
%define ROOT_SYSCONFDIR %{buildroot}/%{SYSCONFDIR}
%define ROOT_AMANDAHOMEDIR %{buildroot}/%{AMANDAHOMEDIR}
%define ROOT_LIBDIR %{buildroot}/%{LIBDIR}
%define ROOT_MANDIR %{buildroot}/%{MANDIR}
%define ROOT_LOGDIR %{buildroot}/%{LOGDIR}
%define ROOT_AMDATADIR %{buildroot}/%{AMDATADIR}
The fact that these are called out may mean that the ‘official’ directories are
different from the autoconf/configure defaults.
By the way, 3.3.37p1’s spec file doesn’t “natively” compile on RHEL7 (it does
on CentOS7), but you can fix that easily.
Does that help any?
Markus
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee
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