Torsten Harenberg <harenberg%physik.uni-wuppertal.de@localhost> writes: > sorry if this is the wrong list to ask (don't want to annoy anybody). The correct list is pkgsrc-users, not tech-pkg. I've followed up there. > I would like to take advantage of some of the new features of > amanda-2.5.0 . It's not yet in pkgsrc (this is still 2.4.4p4). Are > there any plans to upgrade so it's worth waiting? Or should I try to > compile and run the newer version mayself and report on > success/problems? I would try on an alpha. I would suggest compiling it yourself for now. I use the following script with 2.4.4 (that I have in CVS because for a while the kerberos support was broken). #!/bin/sh INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr/amanda" AMANDA_USER="amanda" AMANDA_GROUP="operator" COMMON_OPTIONS="\ --prefix=$INSTALL_PREFIX \ --with-user=$AMANDA_USER \ --with-group=$AMANDA_GROUP \ --without-rundump \ --with-fqdn \ --with-amandahosts \ --with-mmap \ --with-dump-honor-nodump \ --without-smbclient" if test x`uname -s` = "xDarwin" then COMMON_OPTIONS="$COMMON_OPTIONS --with-gnutar=/usr/hfstar/bin/tar" fi KRB_LOCATION="/usr" KRB_KEYFILE="/etc/srvtab.amanda" KRB_PRINCIPAL="amanda" KRB_OPTIONS="\ --with-krb4-security=$KRB_LOCATION \ --with-client-principal=$KRB_PRINCIPAL \ --with-client-keyfile=$KRB_KEYFILE" NO_SERVER_OPTIONS="--without-server" build_server="no" build_krb="no" for i do case $i in --server) build_server="yes" ;; build-nokrb) build_krb="no" ;; build-krb) build_krb="yes" ;; install) make install ;; *) echo "Usage: IR.rules [--server] {build-nokrb|build-krb|install}" exit 1 ;; esac done configure_options="$COMMON_OPTIONS" if test x$build_server = "xno"; then configure_options="$configure_options $NO_SERVER_OPTIONS" fi if test x$build_krb = "xyes"; then configure_options="$configure_options $KRB_OPTIONS" fi # allow for CVSREAD=t (although these files should not be in CVS for f in aclocal.m4 configure; do if [ -f $f ]; then chmod u+w $f fi done autoreconf echo "./configure $configure_options" ./configure $configure_options make -- Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>
Attachment:
pgpmXowpZdei2.pgp
Description: PGP signature