Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

Jose M Calhariz <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Aug 2022 15:25:21 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 12:27:26PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 02.08.22 um 10:06 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> > Am 02.08.22 um 09:44 schrieb gene heskett:
> > > On 8/2/22 01:40, Winston Sorfleet wrote:
> > > > Much appreciated José, count me in as a beta tester.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Me too, but its been a while and this is a fairly fresh bullseye
> > > install, and autogen
> > > complains mightily, and quickly.
> > > 
> > > gene@coyote:~/src/amanda-tag-community-3.5.2$ ./autogen
> > > See DEVELOPING for instructions on updating:
> > >   * gettext macros
> > >   * gnulib
> > >   * libtool files
> > > ..creating file lists
> > > ..aclocal
> > > config/amanda/libs.m4:160: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0' not
> > > found in library
> > > ...aclocal patches
> > > ..autoconf
> > > configure:46532: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0
> > >        If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> > > m4_pattern_allow.
> > >        See the Autoconf documentation.
> > > configure:46533: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
> > > autoconf failed
> > > 
> > > And the fix is?
> > > 
> > > build-essential., debhejper and friends are installed.
> > 
> > As far as I learned from Chris Hassell, the new packaging scripts should
> > build packages for Debian with:
> > 
> > ./packaging/deb/buildpkg
> > 
> > I am trying that for the branch "tag-community-3.5.2" right now in a
> > Debian-11.4-VM.
> > 
> > There is quite a list of needed packages to install, Chris told me:
> > 
> > gcc g++ binutils gettext libtool autoconf automake bison flex swig
> > libglib2.0-dev libjson-glib-1.0 libjson-glib-dev libssl-dev
> > libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev perl-base
> > perl-modules libcpanplus-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libswitch-perl
> > bsd-mailx mtx procps smbclient dump gnuplot-nox xinetd
> > 
> > and some extra:
> > 
> > xsltproc build-essential debhelper fakeroot dpkg-dev dh-make-perl git
> > make gawk grep tar passwd
> > 
> > pressing SEND now, my build is still running
> 
> I was able to build packages for 3.5.2 after applying the fix mentioned in
> 
> https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/185
> 
> Installing the packages over the packages coming from the Debian
> repositories seems a bit tricky:
> 
> the new packages use the user "amandabackup", so far it was "backup"
> 
> the path to amandad seems to change as well
> 
> I assume I can edit packaging/deb/rules to adjust that.
> 
> Unsure if that is a good thing to do.
>

The Debian packages from Zmanda follow the official documentation, the
Packages from Debian, aka now maintained by me, follow Debian
guidelines.  Upgrades between them is something that I do not try and
I do not expect good results.

There are patches to the build process and code to adapt the amanda
for the Debian guidelines.  I do my best to patch the documentation of
amanda on Debian, so there is no difference between what is
implemented and what is documented.


Kind regards
Jose M Calhariz

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