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Bug 10782

Summary: amanda-2.4.2-r2.ebuild (New Package)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Christopher Dahn <chris.dahn>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: chris.dahn
Priority: High    
Version: 1.4_rc1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: Amanda 2.4.2p2 ebuild
ChangeLog for amanda-2.4.2-r2.ebuild
xinetd file for amanda, installed during ebuild merge
xinetd file for amanda, installed during merge
xinetd file for amanda, installed during ebuild merge
My revisions to the proposed amanda ebuild
Added some niceties to it. Populate example files into /etc/amanda, create stub directories in amanda home directory.

Description Christopher Dahn 2002-11-15 12:00:31 UTC
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.
Comment 1 Christopher Dahn 2002-11-15 12:04:10 UTC
Created attachment 5694 [details]
Amanda 2.4.2p2 ebuild
Comment 2 Christopher Dahn 2002-11-15 12:04:43 UTC
Created attachment 5695 [details]
ChangeLog for amanda-2.4.2-r2.ebuild
Comment 3 Christopher Dahn 2002-11-15 12:05:27 UTC
Created attachment 5696 [details]
xinetd file for amanda, installed during ebuild merge
Comment 4 Christopher Dahn 2002-11-15 12:06:10 UTC
Created attachment 5697 [details]
xinetd file for amanda, installed during merge

The three xinetd files should go in the files directory, obviously. :)
Comment 5 Christopher Dahn 2002-11-15 12:06:51 UTC
Created attachment 5698 [details]
xinetd file for amanda, installed during ebuild merge
Comment 6 Christopher Farley 2003-01-12 12:34:06 UTC
Created attachment 7226 [details]
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!
Comment 7 Christopher Dahn 2003-01-13 10:28:17 UTC
  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.
Comment 8 Maik Schreiber 2003-01-17 17:41:27 UTC
Bouncing back to bug-wranglers due to time constraints.
Comment 9 Christopher Dahn 2003-01-24 07:53:15 UTC
Created attachment 7600 [details, diff]
Added some niceties to it. Populate example files into /etc/amanda, create stub directories in amanda home directory.
Comment 10 Seth Chandler 2003-02-11 14:25:45 UTC
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
Comment 11 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-05 06:33:58 UTC
wrangler
Comment 12 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2003-06-26 12:48:43 UTC
Commited to CVS.
Comment 13 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2003-06-26 12:49:52 UTC
In CVS.
Comment 14 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2003-08-12 01:20:40 UTC
Closing bug properly.