Re: [gentoo-user] amanda client

[Mark Shields]

You never know, someone might be willing to make an ebuild for you. If you
really want one, I would post on bugs.gentoo.org
<http://bugs.gentoo.org>for a feature request.

On 10/23/05, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Mark Shields wrote:
>
> > Since google is your friend, if you had searched for "gentoo
> amanda-client",
> > you would've found some more information. "amanda-client" as your only
> > search keyword returns some distros that have seperate server/client
> > packages (like Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD). But these seem to be, if these
> > packages are still active, distro-created seperate packages. If you look
> at
> > the official website (http://amanda.org), you will see that even the
> > official releases don't have seperate server/client packages. The
> > server/client all come in the same gzipped tar file. Now, if you were to
>
> I know that. There are config options to build only the client side.
> Just thought there might exist some "hidden" USE variable.
>
> I guess I'll try to install it to /usr/local, off portage. Less
> error-prone than messing with ebuilds.
>
> > request an ebuild for the client be made (I checked
> > bugs.gentoo.org <http://bugs.gentoo.org><http://bugs.gentoo.org>,
> > nothing there mentioning a client-only version), or possibly a specific
> use
> > flag for the ebuild (say amandaserver), someone might be happy enough to
> > make one for you (or you can always nudge the package maintainer).
> >
> I wouldn't expect anyone to write an ebuild _only_ for me. I suppose few
> gentooers need only the client side of amanda.
> --
> Jorge Almeida
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>
>


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- Mark Shields