s3backer in freebsd 9.2

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Tue Jan 13 13:54:04 UTC 2015


On 01/12/15 23:57, brian wrote:
> Considering that it looks like it is used to mount filesystems I bet 
> the probability for a failure is pretty high if doing that. Tried fuse?
>
> https://code.google.com/p/s3backer/issues/detail?id=45
>
> Brian
>
> On 1/12/2015 9:56 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> On 01/12/15 23:53, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>> On 01/12/15 23:37, Aafak Mohammad wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> I am using freebsd 9.2 release.
>>>> Can anyone tell me the steps to install and use s3backer in freebsd?
>>>> I am not able to install it using pkg_add command.
>>>> Is there any other way to install?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I'm on FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 & it uses pkgng, the newer 
>>> version of the package management tool, & has used it pretty much as 
>>> long as I have been here (only about 6 months). I think your command 
>>> would be 'pkg install s3backer'. I keep an updated list of packages 
>>> installed & available on my box, however, & I see no references to a 
>>> 's3backer'. furthermore:
>>>
>>> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:52:12pm] 351 % find /usr/ports/ -name \*s3back\* 
>>> -exec ls -ltrF {} +
>>> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:52:38pm] 352 %
>>>
>>> i.e. doesn't seem to be in ports anywhere either .... $0.02, no 
>>> more, no less ....
>>>
>>
>> P.S., just to dot I's & cross T's, it looks like download the coding 
>> from wherever & compile it up from scratch ....
>>
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Agreed. I looked it up online *after* replying, little order-of-op'ns 
issue ;-/ ....

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