Hi, Box Backup is an open source, completely automatic on-line backup system for UNIX. See also http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/. The attached .tar.gz file contains an ebuild, init scripts and configuration files. Mark
Created attachment 51508 [details] boxbackup-0.09.ebuild (new package)
*** Bug 71995 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
does anyone from app-backup herd object if I take this ebuild? Mark, thanks for the ebuild. - Is there a reason why you force -j1 for make? - For calling configure, there is a handly "econf" thing, like "emake", did you decide not to use it deliberately? - It's quite unconventional to install files yourself in src_install(), why don't you use "make DESTDIR=${D} install"? - for adding and removing users/groups there are tools "enewuser" and "enewgroup" Could you try to elaborate on/implement the points mentioned above in a new ebuild, preferably via a patch with the current one?
grobian: no problems with you coming on to help us in app-backup. I'm waiting for any response from recruiters to get app-backup up to speed (got 2 people waiting), so please add yourself to the herd and the mailing alias (I'd like to keep the assigned group in bugzilla as app-backup, for tracking reasons).
in response to comment #3: ok, I had not realised that there still exist people that think it's better to create your own configure script in Perl, as well as don't care about (g)make and go for bsdmake if necessary and do the install phase via a few scripts. (horror) However, I managed to get this thing compiling on x86 and ppc-macos using GCC4. I think it also compiles on solaris, as I applied a solaris patch that's on the boxbackup website. Altogether some patchwork and unavoidable sed replacements to get the code somehow GCC4 proof. Mark, thanks for figuring out most of the job of manually installing the files. How much you think it is required to generate the config file whenever your conf.d file changes? Since the conf.d does not seem to hold actual settings that influence how the daemon is started, I'd prefer just to have the config file in /etc and not be auto-generated upon change of the conf.d file...
Created attachment 67138 [details] Ebuild boxbackup client part
Created attachment 67139 [details] Ebuid boxbackup clent part with conf & init files
Created attachment 67140 [details] Ebuild boxbackup server part
Created attachment 67141 [details] Ebuid boxbackup server part with conf & init files
Created attachment 67145 [details] Ebuild with fix
Created attachment 67146 [details] Ebuid boxbackup clent part with conf & init files. Fix
Created attachment 67147 [details] Ebuild with fix
Anatoly, what versions does your ebuilds deal with? I'll look at them in more detail later, thanks sofar.
Created attachment 67148 [details] Ebuid boxbackup server part with conf & init files. Fix
(In reply to comment #13) > Anatoly, what versions does your ebuilds deal with? It's my variant ebuild's for boxbackup. Obsolete ebuid contains "econf" but configure in package not compatibility with this, i'm rollback to old version. With ./configure. > I'll look at them in more detail later, thanks sofar. 10x. PS Boxbackup very usefull backup software ;)
Created attachment 67150 [details, diff] files/boxbackup-0.09-solaris.patch -- a modified version of the solaris patch on the boxbackup website I have worked on this ebuild myself in the past. I will submit my files that I modified/created that represent my efforts to get boxbackup working on ppc-macos too.
Created attachment 67151 [details, diff] files/boxbackup-0.09-darwin.patch -- a patch for darwin systems this patch allows compilation of boxbackup 0.09 on OSX 10.4
Created attachment 67152 [details, diff] boxbackup-0.09.ebuild -- a modified version of the original ebuild supplied by Mark Spanbroek I made an attempt to generalise the ebuild supplied by Mark Spanbroek, comment it a bit on why things are not done the standard ways. This ebuild uses one source file for both client and server. Anatoly, it looked in your ebuilds as if there are two source files, one for client and the other for server, but I can't find them on sourceforge. Do you have access to development sources of boxbackup?
Created attachment 68657 [details] boxbackup-0.09.ebuild v0.2 I made some improvements on compilation area, and included the patch made by Alexandrai to the sources to set the paths right. We can now do without sed crap to compile on GCC4
Created attachment 68658 [details, diff] boxbackup-0.09-gentoo.patch patch extracted from Anatoly's files (sorry, got your name wrong in previous post)
it makes no sense to spam the ppc-macos guys at this moment
Created attachment 68661 [details] files/bbackupd.rc -- init script for bbackupd This is a modified version of the init script from the first attachment (the tar.gz). I removed the automatic (re)generation of config files from the init script, because that really isn't the place to do it.
Created attachment 68663 [details] files/bbackupd.rc -- init script for bbstored Same change for the bbstored init script.
Ok, I checked in a boxbackup ebuild largerly based on the work of Mark Spanbroek, including the gentoo patches by Anatoly Shipitsin. It compiles and runs on ~x86. Please open a new bug if problems appear.
