On Friday 19 October 2007 08:11, Masopust, Christian wrote: > > > could anyone give me some hints (or maybe more :-)) on how to build > > > client-only rpms for RHEL4 and also client-only PKG for > > > > Solaris (8,9,..) > > > > > from bacula-x.x.x.tar.gz? > > > > In general, the client rpms for RHEL4 should be available on > > the Source Forge > > web site -- 2.2.5 probably not yet. No need to build them > > yourself. If you > > really want to build them, there is an RPM chapter in the > > online manual that > > explains how to do so: > > > > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Bacula_RPM_Packaging_FAQ.html > > yes, i know that the packages are available on sourceforge, but my > (maybe silly) philosophy is to build them by myself (main reason is > that i don't install Bacula in the "standard" directories, i always > have it all in /opt/bacula).
Yes, I see. *Very* good practice. That is my recommended way of installing Bacula. I include backup of my equivalent of your /opt/bacula in the nightly catalog backup, and I email myself the resulting .bsr file. We hope to be able to supply such single directory install binaries in the not too distant future. > in the past i always recompiled the source > on all servers.... but now, with the directions above, i was able > to create my own rpm's :-))) Oh, great. > > > For Solaris, hopefully someone can respond since I am not at > > all familiar with > > Solaris packaging. I've always manually built it ... :-) > > as i didn't get any response in building packages for solaris i sat > down on my ..... and did it myself. attached you'll find a patch > to ./platforms/solaris which can be used to create a Solaris package > (in the makepkg.sh there is a configure only for client, but it would > also work if you configure for building all daemons). I'm sorry you didn't get any response, but on the other hand, I'm very pleased to receive your makepkg.sh -- thanks. > > > By the way, I am in Vienna from time to time (a few times a > > year). If you are > > interested, I might be able to visit your site the next time > > I am there ... > > Would be nice to meet you here, but i'm currently not sure if > it would be possible here at my workplace. but if you like, there > would be nothing against visiting one of our wonderful cafe's or > one of our "Heurigen" :-)) Yes, I would enjoy visiting a Heurigen with you and talking about Bacula, and I'll let you know the next time I am in Vienna. :-) Best regards, Kern > > christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
