On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 9:30:27 PM UTC+2, Adam Thompson wrote: > 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
Thanks adam for your support and recommendation. If I find some spare time I might give it a try and contact the OpenBSD port guys to see if they can include my port. Cheers, J. -- 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.
