ports/87426: Amanda port should get GNU-tar dependency

Patrick M. Hausen hausen at punkt.de
Fri Oct 14 07:30:18 UTC 2005


>Number:         87426
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Amanda port should get GNU-tar dependency
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 14 07:30:17 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Patrick M. Hausen
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 i386
>Organization:
punkt.de GmbH
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD nt.karlsruhe.punkt.de 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Thu Oct 13 12:15:49 CEST 2005 root at nettracker.ka.punkt.de:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NT i386
ports/amanda-client-2.4.5,1
>Description:
GNU tar was removed from the base system some while ago. Now,
when installing Amanda client, it's configure script doesn't
find GNU tar and disables support for it.
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /usr/ports/misc/amanda-client
make install clean

bowman# su -m operator -c "amcheck -c KARLSRUHE"
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
ERROR: nt-backup: [GNUTAR program not available]
...

>Fix:
Install archivers/gtar first, then install Amanda client.
Suggested change: introduce a Makefile option to pull in GNU tar
as a dependency.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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