Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:32:34AM +0200, Lenny Cartier wrote: > >>[Contrib-RPM] >> >>--=-=-= >>Name : amanda Relocations: (not relocateable) >>Version : 2.4.2p2 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > >
The first package went in close on a month ago now, it's a bit late now ... but we can take a look. > It's nice to see this being packaged, even if only in contrib, but I > wonder what exactly is in it? Is it vanilla amanda 2.4.2p2 or are > there any "feature enhancement" patches in it? Atm, it's just ripped mainly from the rh package. I made my first rpm for mandrake close on a year ago, but we had lots of hardware problems, so in the end we only got amanda up and running about 5 months ago, by which time someone else had taken over responsibility for backups. I haven't spent enough time with amanda yet (I have spent way too much time with samba in the past!), so I am not too confident in making too many changes to the packages without user input, and so far I haven't had any. > > For instance, there is a patch to allow appending to a tape, so that > you can use a tape multiple times until it's full. Also there is a > patch to fix a bug with tar's "socket ignored" message. Where would I find them? Actually, the feature we are looking for most is multi-tape spanning, but AFAIK it's only available in 2.4.3betas. > > I have been running amanda (2.4.2p2) with the above 2 patches applied > for over a year now, no problems. If you are not using either of them > and are interested in including them in your amanda RPM, I would be > happy to send them along. I would love to be using the amanda from > the distro (even if it's contrib) rather than having to roll my own > RPM here. I would prefer that Mandrake have the best packages possible, so that multiple people don't end up maintaing their own amanda installations ... Where are your patches, we haven't got too much time ... Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
