Re: New Amanda Community release 3.5.2 Has Arrived!

On 8/2/22 10:32, Jose M Calhariz wrote:
> 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
>
And where do I get the debian approved versions of 3.5.2? What is 
offered in the bullseye
repo's is an older 1.3.5.1-7 that has not worked for me. Un-resolvable 
Dependencies.  And
I was at one time, quite comfortable building from tarballs, been doing 
it since 1998.

But I had a complete meltdown last fall losing 20 years of history with 
the failure of
two new 2T seacrate drives in a 1 week span. End of spinning rust here.

So my rebuild is now 100% 1T Samsung SSD's, 4 in a raid10 for /home. 
With a .5Tb as /, + 1
500GB SSD for dump buffer, and I can get more of the 1T's for a raid10 
for amanda.  If I
can get it to work...

Thank you Jose, take care & stay well.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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