On Tuesday 07 May 2019 08:01:42 pm Chris Hassell wrote:
> I don't allow a script to alter the repo unless it's in big neon.
>
> This is (btw) all placed in github ... so the actual clone is 'git
> clone'... and its mighty fast. Far faster than a subversion copy or
> even a zip file. I'd just try the below if you're okay with that.
> (Where in anywhere is gh.cf? I can't find it in the repo and I've
> never used a gh.cf once.)
Somebody made a front end for scripts that made sure you were the correct
user, so I added by my own configure with the options I always used
sorta hard coded. The name was easy, for gene hesketts config.
So here is gh.cf:
#!/bin/sh
# since I'm always forgetting to su amanda...
if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then
echo
echo "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the"
echo "user amanda, but must be installed by user root."
echo
exit 1
fi
make clean
rm -f config.status config.cache
./configure --with-user=amanda \
--with-group=disk \
--with-owner=amanda \
--with-gnu-ld \
--prefix=/usr/local/ \
--with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \
--with-tape-server=coyote \
--with-bsdtcp-security --with-amandahosts \
--with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda \
--enable-manpage-build \
--with-readline \
--with-gnutar=/bin/tar
--with-security-file=/etc/amanda-security.conf
echo "sleeping for reading configures warnings"
echo "a make as amanda will continue after 75 seconds..."
sleep 75
make
Pretty simple, but guaranteed a build with consistant options.
I've also written a wrapper script so if the main drive explodes and
kills all your goldfish 10 minutes after the backup is done, saves
enough of the database to the tape such that a full bare metal recovery
puts the machine in the state it was in when the LAST backup was done, a
day later than amanda can do by itself. Thats, in a slightly earlier
version, on my web page as GenesAmandaHelper-0.61.
> To drag in the current work I pushed that's definitely this (for
> 3.5.1) you need to make a branch off of origin/3_5, which has those
> changes I made.
>
> It does (if I recall correctly) require a user "amandabackup" to
> exist, but that's all. The user 'amanda' (?), not so sure if that's
> made in the build or not.
>
> So use this entirely as yourself in your home/tmpdir or somewhere ...
> (building isn't installing, so the security is far less)
>
> % git clone git://github.com/zmanda/amanda.git
>
> Then (still as yourself) ...
>
> % git checkout -b 3_5mine origin/3_5 # current target I'm assuming?
>
> % bash autogen && ./packaging/deb/buildpkg
>
> and with all the latest debian goodness it creates the debian packages
> which only then deserve a new user to install them.
>
> Give it a whirl, hopefully with a zippier little clone from git.
>
> -- CH
Printed for when I'm awake, its getting sleepy out now. Thanks Chris.
>
Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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