On Tuesday 19 March 2019 15:25:55 J Chapman Flack wrote: > On 3/19/19 2:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Here's what I have ATM. > > ... > > amanda-4.0.0alpha.svn.4700.tar.gz > > ... > > amanda-4.0.0alpha.svn.5199.tar.gz > > Did those come from the SVN repo at https://sourceforge.net/p/amanda ? > Or is there another I've overlooked? I believe they did, it was while a Dustin Mitchel was working on it about 5 years ago now, but the grant $ ran out, and he went elsewhere since he was fond of eating and such.
> The one at sourceforge has a latest revision r7719 from 14 Feb 2019. Does it work? And whose name is in the release notes? > The mirror at https://github.com/zmanda/amanda seems to stop at > git commit b2fd140, which corresponds to svn r7714 about a year > earlier. Then apparently the updates to git stopped happening. > > The later commits I see in sourceforge svn are: > 7715 (branch 3_5) for filtering arguments to GNU tar > 7716 (branch 3_5) for security review comments fixes > 7717 (creates branch 3_5_Debug from 3_5) > 7718 (branch 3_5_Debug) changes to s3 device > 7719 (branch 3_5_Debug) adds debug logging for s3 > > > Start a new github entry as amanda-4-alpha. > > Surely the way to go would be to fork the existing github repo > (for preservation of all existing history and commit IDs) and > catch it up (via git-svn) to any history in the svn repo that > isn't mirrored over yet? However that is done. I am not familiar with those tools. > > Or is the 4.0.0alpha stuff coming from some completely different > repository? DNK for sure. But for a while, there was a new one about weekly. This was in 2012 according to the dates on those, the last time any major work was done on it. At the time, the major push was to rewrite it in perl. What amazes me is that Jean-Louis M. has been quiet, too quiet, as if he has been silenced. > -Chap Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. HeskettCheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
