Re: [gentoo-user] amanda client

[Mark Shields]

Since google is your friend, if you had searched for "gentoo amanda-client", you would've found some more information.  "amanda-client" as your only search keyword returns some distros that have seperate server/client packages  (like Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD).  But these seem to be, if these packages are still active, distro-created seperate packages.  If you look at the official website (http://amanda.org), you will see that even the official releases don't have seperate server/client packages.  The server/client all come in the same gzipped tar file.  Now, if you were to request an ebuild for the client be made (I checked bugs.gentoo.org, nothing there mentioning a client-only version), or possibly a specific use flag for the ebuild (say amandaserver), someone might be happy enough to make one for you (or you can always nudge the package maintainer).

On 10/21/05, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Google says there exists such a thing as "amanda-client", but it's not
in portage.
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv amanda

        These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

        Calculating dependencies ...done!
        [ebuild  N    ] mail-client/mailx-support-20030215  8 kB
        [ebuild  N    ] net-libs/liblockfile-1.06  31 kB
        [ebuild  N    ] mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20040524-r1  126 kB
        [ebuild  N    ] sys-block/mtx-1.2.18  163 kB
        [ebuild  N    ] app-arch/mt-st-0.7-r1  34 kB
        [ebuild  N    ] app-arch/dump-0.4.39  +readline -static 270 kB
        [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/pdflib-5.0.4_p1-r1  +java +perl +python -tcltk 2,759 kB
        [ebuild  N    ] media-gfx/gnuplot-4.0-r1  +X +doc -emacs -gd -ggi +pdflib -plotutils +png +readline -svga -xemacs 2,110 kB
        [ebuild  N    ] app-backup/amanda-2.4.5  -berkdb -debug -gdbm -samba -xfs 1,505 kB

        Total size of downloads: 7,009 kB
        ~
Judging from the names, most of these packages appear to be useful only
in the server (gnuplot, ...).
I need to setup the computer as client only.
What to do? Should I emerge all of this? (Or are these just small
emerges?)

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