On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 1:37:11 AM UTC-5, John Naggets wrote: > On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 11:58:08 PM UTC+2, John Naggets wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Where can I find and download the bareos client (fd) package for OpenBSD > > 5.9? > > > > Regards > > J. > > Hello, Anyone? I think you are missing a great opportunity here with not > providing any packages for OpenBSD...
No, not really. In all my 15+ years of running OpenBSD, I've never seen 3rd-party *binary* packages be acceptable in OpenBSD. (I exclude m:tier from that, for obvious reasons, and even they're not universally accepted.) Bacula is already in ports, you could run that in compatibility mode. Otherwise, OpenBSD has its own very, um, close-knit, let's call it, software porting community; feel free to contribute a Bareos port. The existing Bacula port would likely be an excellent starting point. Alternately, I'm sure you could pay the Bareos dev team to create and maintain an OpenBSD port. If they aren't getting paid specifically to do so, why would they bother to support an OS that's pretty much guaranteed to generate zero revenue? Or, you could try and convince either Stuart ([email protected]) or m:tier to maintain a Bareos port in parallel with the Bacula port. There's a fair number of local patches to Bacula in the OpenBSD ports tree (http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/bacula/patches/?hideattic=1#dirlist). It looks like the vast majority of the patches are to buildscripts, not code, so they'll probably either translate quite well to Bareos or be completely inapplicable. Having a quick look at those patches, I'd suggest there's a good chance you could just compile the Bareos source yourself without much difficulty. I do that for the lone Solaris machine I have to maintain, and compiling just the FD is pretty simple. For the record, I'd enjoy having an OpenBSD port myself, but I'm not prepared to commit to being the port maintainer. -Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
