On 03/12 07:30 , Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Woah, this is becoming a large thread. I hope I'm not the one causing > this by replying to the 'bad admin' statement. I just wanted to let > you know that BackupPC is probably the only piece of software in our > infrastructure that I installed from source.
My company has a policy that things *must* be packaged if at all possible. So when I was faced with that same situation, I built an RPM. Obviously Your Mileage Does Vary. :) > I couldn't find a > repository that carries a recent version of BackupPC for CentOS 4 and > I never mastered the art of packaging stuff myself. I tried it, but > found documentation on creating your own RPM's was contradicting other > documentation on creating your own RPM's Admittedly, with RPMs it helps that I work with some people who know RPM intimately, and can provide really good advice on best practices. Once they got to know dpkg and the deb build process tho they were pretty quick to abandon RPM. <plugetty plug plug plug> > By the way, there is nothing to compile when installing BackupPC. :o) true, but there's still plenty of stuff that goes on without the benefit of management, if you install from source. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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/
