Hello, This is to let you know that if all goes well, we will be releasing Bacula version 5.0.1 this weekend, or perhaps early next week. It is principally a bug fix to Bacula 5.0.0, but also consists of a redesign of the Truncate on purge feature that did not work correctly.
For packagers, there are a few things to note for Bacula version 5.0.0 and later. 1. The default query.sql file is now, except for some comments, empty. The old file, which we no longer support (it is impossible or difficult to make it work on every backend, and the queries are mostly contributed) can be found in <bacula-source>/examples/sample-query.sql. The sample file is not installed by the Makefiles 2. When you install the mtx-changer script, you must also install mtx-changer.conf if it does not exist. This new file (mtx-changer.conf) is required for mtx-changer to work, but it is a user configurable file, so on any update, any existing file should not be overwritten. 3. Bat should be built on every platform that is capabable of running Qt. However, the Qt code is changing rather quickly and is not always compatible from version to version. We have built and verified bat on Qt 4.3.4. We strongly recommend that you do not build and distribute bat with any other version of Qt unless you personally test it. To build against Qt 4.3.4, download the depkgs-qt package from the Bacula Source Forge download location, read the README file and follow the instructions. If you are building for Bacula version 5.0.0, please ensure that you do not have qmake-qt4 loaded on your system. If you do, either remove it or rename it before trying to build bat. If you do not, bat will probably be built using the shared objects on your system. For Bacula 5.0.1 and later, this problem (bug) does not exist. depkgs-qt does not install Qt on your system, nor does it interfere with you having any other version of Qt installed on your system. Once you build bat with depkgs-qt, it should *not* use the Qt shared objects, but rather they will be linked into the program. After fully installing bat (make install), you can run "ldd bat" to see what shared objects it will use. If any Qt shared objects are referenced, something has gone wrong. 4. Unless absolutely necessary, we recommend that you do not define any special library environment variables that apply to the ./configure -- for example: LIBDIR=/... ./configure <your-options> is strongly discouraged. Doing so, could potentially cause Bacula to be linked against the wrong shared objects. 5. The Bacula project *strongly* recommends that you install Bacula into a single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full recommendation is: #!/bin/sh # Recommended configure script for Bacula prefix=/opt/bacula [email protected] CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \ ./configure \ --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \ --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \ --docdir=${prefix}/html \ --htmldir=${prefix}/html \ --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \ --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \ --libdir=${prefix}/lib \ --enable-smartalloc \ --enable-tray-monitor \ --enable-bat \ --with-mysql \ --with-dump-email=${email} \ --with-job-email=${email} \ --with-smtp-host=localhost \ --with-baseport=9101 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql, ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices. If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please send an email to the bacula-devel list. 6. Starting with Bacula version 3.0.0 up to Bacula 5.0.0, the shared libraries that Bacula uses by default are named xxx-1.0.0. Starting with Bacula 5.0.1, we are going to name the libraries using the Bacula version. So in Bacula 5.0.1, the libraries will be named xxx-5.0.1. With future versions, the last digit may or may not change when we distribute patch updates (i.e. the last digit of the version changes). This will depend on whether or not we have changed something in the library. Hopefully this new procedure will resolve some of the incompatibility problems between different versions of the shared objects. 7. The default build option for bconsole is conio (my own little console routines). I did this because some years ago, readline was very difficult to maintain -- it and where it was found seemed to change on every release. This generated at the time a number of support problems. It seems to me that since then there have been very few problems with readline. As a consequence, I have no problem if you want to make bconsole with readline enabled. It will actually give some very nice new bconsole command completion functionality that Eric has written. Bottom line: feel free to use readline or not as you please. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. 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