3:47pm, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 12/07 03:04 , Samuel Krieg wrote: >> The packages I had to install on a minimal Debian box: >> >> apt-get install backuppc >> apt-get install rsync libfile-rsyncp-perl > > This is a packaging issue, and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. > The argument for doing it this way is that the admin may not use rsync for > backups; in which case it's better to not include the rsync package. I would > posit that rsync is really the best way to do backups, and most people would > want to do backups that way unless they had some unusual situation; so it > may not be bad to include the rsync packages. > > The BOFH in me says that people can learn, and so it's perfectly ok to be > minimalist about things and not include the rsync packages as a dependency > of backuppc. >
FWIW, (K)Ubuntu lists those (and more) as dependencies: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -s install backuppc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2 apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-common exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light libapr1 libaprutil1 libarchive-zip-perl libfile-rsyncp-perl Suggested packages: apache2-doc par2 eximon4 exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info libmail-spf-query-perl Recommended packages: mailx The following NEW packages will be installed: apache2 apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-common backuppc exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light libapr1 libaprutil1 libarchive-zip-perl libfile-rsyncp-perl 0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst libapr1 (1.2.7-8.2ubuntu1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst libaprutil1 (1.2.7+dfsg-2build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst apache2-utils (2.2.4-3build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst apache2.2-common (2.2.4-3build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst apache2-mpm-worker (2.2.4-3build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst apache2 (2.2.4-3build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst libarchive-zip-perl (1.18-1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst libfile-rsyncp-perl (0.68-1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst exim4-config (4.67-5build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst exim4-base (4.67-5build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst exim4-daemon-light (4.67-5build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst exim4 (4.67-5build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Inst backuppc (3.0.0-3ubuntu2 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf libapr1 (1.2.7-8.2ubuntu1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf libaprutil1 (1.2.7+dfsg-2build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf apache2-utils (2.2.4-3build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf apache2.2-common (2.2.4-3build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf apache2-mpm-worker (2.2.4-3build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf apache2 (2.2.4-3build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf libarchive-zip-perl (1.18-1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf libfile-rsyncp-perl (0.68-1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf exim4-config (4.67-5build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf exim4-base (4.67-5build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf exim4-daemon-light (4.67-5build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf exim4 (4.67-5build1 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) Conf backuppc (3.0.0-3ubuntu2 Ubuntu:7.10/gutsy) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
