>From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:49:46 +0100 (CET)
>Doesn't installing Amanda from /usr/ports/misc/amanda24 work for you?
I started with amanda from "ports" back in '98, but it became rather too
awkward to ensure that the Solaris boxen also had amanda configured the
same way. And I migrated to 2.4.2p1 well before a "port" was available
for it.
>The recommended way to install software on a FreeBSD system is using
>the ports collection.
Well, I find the FreeBSD "ports" system a curious combination of
convenience and frustration, largely, no doubt, because I'm far more
accustomed to obtaining the sources for software, configuring, and
building it. I haven't learned enough about the "ports" system to be
able to have anywhere near as much control as easily as I do with the
old-fashioned mechanism I'm used to.
For cases where I want things installed the same way the port maintainer
did them, the "ports" are very nice -- and that's the majority of cases.
But in the case of amanda, especially in a heterogeneous environment, I
found it very awkward... especially when I was trying out some of my own
patches (for example).
And given the present state of amanda's development, where a great deal
is determined prior to compilation (at configuration time), I am
reluctant to recommend any approach for installing amanda that does not
expose the installer to the configuration process in all its detail.
(Witness the issues brought forth by folks who install amanda "RPMs" on
Linux systems, for example.)
Cheers,
david
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