Bugzilla Bug 10782

This is an ebuild for AMANDA version 2.4.2p2.

AMANDA is a popular open source (BSD License) backup solution. It is quite
actively developed and the current version is up to 2.4.3 (ebuild to come soon).

More info at http://www.amanda.org/

I suggest app-admin/amanda as it is an application that is used for
administrative purposes. This ebuild has a runtime dependency on
sys-apps/xinetd, and uses zlib. I have tested this ebuild on the x86 platform,
but I'm not sure if it works with other platforms.

Created an attachment (id=5694) [edit]
Amanda 2.4.2p2 ebuild

Created an attachment (id=5695) [edit]
ChangeLog for amanda-2.4.2-r2.ebuild

Created an attachment (id=5696) [edit]
xinetd file for amanda, installed during ebuild merge

Created an attachment (id=5697) [edit]
xinetd file for amanda, installed during merge

The three xinetd files should go in the files directory, obviously. :)

Created an attachment (id=5698) [edit]
xinetd file for amanda, installed during ebuild merge

Created an attachment (id=7226) [edit]
My revisions to the proposed amanda ebuild

I used Christopher Dahn's ebuild to install amanda on my system. I found that
it installed cleanly, but I needed to make some revisions to allow it to do
what I needed (I'm setting up an amanda client using dump). 

I can submit a patch if it's more useful, however I also included a new file in
${FILESDIR}, so I figured this was the cleanest way to submit my suggestions.

It'd sure be nice to have an official amanda ebuild in gentoo!

  This is in response to Christopher Farley's post about dump.  About a year
ago, it went across the Amanda users list that dump is very touch and go on
Linux. Apparently Linus has it in for dump, claiming that nobody should expect
it to work with kernels >= 2.4.x. I know that I had unending difficulties with
random partitions timing out while trying to use dump on them, none of which was
reproduceable. The problems came and went.  The general consensus on the Amanda
users list is that if you're using Linux, you should be using tar.

Bouncing back to bug-wranglers due to time constraints.

Created an attachment (id=7600) [edit]
Added some niceties to it. Populate example files into /etc/amanda, create stub
directories in amanda home directory.

this ebuild needs some work before we can add it to portage.  first and
formorst the work you do in /etc/ should be done in the install process, that
way you don't have to rm -rf all that stuff in postrm (becuase sandbox will
grab all that stuff).  also, the useradding fails if you're upgrading the
package or installing it again, and if you upgrade the package it will remove
the user so that you've got invalid user/group stuffs chillin on your
system...i worked for about an hour trying to get this set up right, but just
don't have the time to fix it and make it nice....

seth

wrangler

Commited to CVS.

In CVS.

Closing bug properly.