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On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Mark Shields wrote: |
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> Since google is your friend, if you had searched for "gentoo amanda-client", |
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> you would've found some more information. "amanda-client" as your only |
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> search keyword returns some distros that have seperate server/client |
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> packages (like Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD). But these seem to be, if these |
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> packages are still active, distro-created seperate packages. If you look at |
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> the official website (http://amanda.org), you will see that even the |
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> official releases don't have seperate server/client packages. The |
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> server/client all come in the same gzipped tar file. Now, if you were to |
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I know that. There are config options to build only the client side. |
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Just thought there might exist some "hidden" USE variable. |
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I guess I'll try to install it to /usr/local, off portage. Less |
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error-prone than messing with ebuilds. |
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> request an ebuild for the client be made (I checked |
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> bugs.gentoo.org<http://bugs.gentoo.org>, |
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> nothing there mentioning a client-only version), or possibly a specific use |
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> flag for the ebuild (say amandaserver), someone might be happy enough to |
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> make one for you (or you can always nudge the package maintainer). |
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I wouldn't expect anyone to write an ebuild _only_ for me. I suppose few |
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gentooers need only the client side of amanda. |
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Jorge Almeida |
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