amanda-clent prt and gtar

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:50:09PM -0400, stan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:39:01AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > > I'm having trouble getting the amanda-client port to build. It has a
> > > dependency on gtar, and when it tries to build this dependency, the gtar
> > > port simply says that gtar is in the base system now.
> > > 
> > > How can I work around this?
> > 
> >     # cd /usr/ports/misc/amanda-client
> >     # make WITHOUT_GNUTAR=yes install
> > 
> nks, I did this and it worked.
> 
> Will I still be able to use tar incremental backups using this
> installation?

It should just use the system tar, and if you're on a
recent 4.x-RELEASE or -STABLE then the system tar is gnutar:

    % tar --version 
    tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
    Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
    You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
    see the file named COPYING for details.
    Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

So, yes.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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