Hello, mhvtl is a Virtual Tape Library for linux licensed under GPL and developed by Mark Harvey. The driver is really handy and can emulate a vtl robot. It works with bacula as well as with commercial products like legato and symantec. The ebuild needs some improvement and I hope the gentoo community will found it useful. For more information, please have a look at http://sites.google.com/site/linuxvtl2/ and share your experience at http://mhvtl-linux-virtual-tape-library-community-forums.966029.n3.nabble.com mhvtl's forum. Currently, the mhvtl driver won't compile with the 2.6.37 kernel release. The kernel BKL API has changed. To make it compatible with bacula, make_mhvtl_media set_density() regex needs to be changed with regex='[A-Z0-9]{4,6}([SLXTJ])([123456ABWX])[0-9]*$' To see the tape drives in the the changer slots, bacula needs to be patched as well. See attachments Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 254633 [details] mhvtl-0.19.20101111 ebuild
Created attachment 254635 [details, diff] install etc files
Created attachment 254637 [details, diff] simpler mhvtl.in patch
Created attachment 254641 [details, diff] slab patch
Created attachment 254643 [details, diff] init.d
Here is my "improved" bacula version ;). A lot has changed from the gentoo original one. It supports the daemon status monitor.
Created attachment 254645 [details] bacula 5.0.3 modified
Created attachment 254647 [details] patches for bacula 5.0.3 (tar file)
Created attachment 254649 [details, diff] make_vtl_media With bacula make_vtl_media needs some changes (optional)
Hello, The Gentoo Team would like to firstly thank you for your ebuild submission. We also apologize for not being able to accommodate you in a timely manner. There are simply too many new packages. Allow me to use this opportunity to introduce you to Gentoo Sunrise. The sunrise overlay[1] is a overlay for Gentoo which we allow trusted users to commit to and all users can have ebuilds reviewed by Gentoo devs for entry into the overlay. So, the sunrise team is suggesting that you look into this and submit your ebuild to the overlay where even *you* can commit to. =) Thanks, On behalf of the Gentoo Sunrise Team, Michał. [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/ [2]: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki/SunriseFaq
FYI I have functional ebuilds for mhvt-1.4 (including a port of the startup script adapted for OpenRC), those have been pushed in Funtoo portage tree which is basically the same as the Gentoo tree modulo minor differences, however it should remains functional. If interested, I can push the stuff on b.g.o in a new "bug" to not mix patches.
