Re: amanda: expressing defaults again in Makefile?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:51:54PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I am needing amanda on a small-memory sparc, and am thus newly motivated
> to make the default packages acceptable to me.  I am taking a cleanup
> pass on the packages, and noticed that AMANDA_{USER,TMP,VAR} are in
> /usr/pkgsrc/mk/default/mk.conf.  I am guessing that they should
> therefore not be defined in the makefile, and have the following patch.
> OK to commit, or am I confused?

Stupid question, why is this user called backup at all? I think the
defaults should also be in the package Makefile(.common) and not
defaults/mk.conf, given that we now all tag them with BUILD_DEFS.
Please give others a chance to comment on that first though.

> Barring objections, I will also be making AMANDA_FQDN and AMANDA_SSH
> the default, perhaps without even an option, because I now of no good
> reason why they should ever be off.

At the very least they should be converted to the option framework.
Just guessing, but how does amanda behave on a host without FQDN when
compiled with that option?

Joerg