Re: sysutils/amanda not working - resolved

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Greg Troxel wrote:

>  1. [PKG_OPTION]

No problem with using the standard option.

>  2. Previous versions of amanda provided an appropriate default value
>     for tapedev (ie, /dev/nrst0), but the new version does not.  So I
>     had to add that to my amanda.conf file.  The new default value of
>     "null" is documented in the amanda.conf(5) man page, so I did not
>     file a PR for this.  But it sure would be nice if the update
>     process would tell you about this change in behaviour.  :)
>
> True, but that's what upstream NEWS is for, and when dealing with pkgsrc
> I don't try to accomodate upstream lack of perfection too hard - it's
> too much work.

Ok - no problem.

>  3. Previous versions of amanda defaulted to /usr/pkg/etc/amanda for
>     the amanda.conf's indexdir parameter.  The new version defaults to
>     /usr/adm/amanda which doesn't exist on NetBSD.  I've filed PR
>     pkg/38958 for this, and for now have added indexdir parameter to
>     my amanda.conf file.
>
> I took the PR, but I think things belong in /usr/pkg/var/amanda since
> etc is for config.  ok with you?

Yes - that's a much better location.

> 4. [amandates file]
>
> Upstream bug, perhaps.  Should be in VARBASE/amanda, but that may be
> hard.

Yup.  But since it dosn't make any difference to me, and the file is 
only actually used for gnu-tar backups (dump uses standard file in
/etc/dumpdates), I'm not going to worry too much about it.  And the
current location isn't too bad considering where the standard file 
lives.

Thanks for picking these up.  Nice to know that I didn't slog through 
all this for nothing!  :)

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