bacula-1.32f rpm packages released

Hello All,

RPM packages for bacula-1.32f have been released to sourceforge.

Bacula-1.32f RPM Release Notes
01 January 2004
D. Scott Barninger
<barninger at fairfieldcomputers dot com>

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*This rpm release contains some important changes*
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The platform designator (rh7, rh8, rh9) has been
REMOVED from the package names as this was creating
some problems. Hence, you CAN NOT upgrade existing
installations with these packages (rpm -U).

To upgrade:
1. Backup your configuration files (/etc/bacula/*.conf)
"just to be safe."
2. Uninstall the old bacula package, ie.
rpm -e bacula-mysql-rh9
If you are not sure what package name is installed do
rpm -qa | grep bacula
3. Install the new package with rpm -i

In addition, the spec file has been reworked to include a
platform configuration section at the beginning of the file.
To rebuild the SRPM, first install using rpm -i then edit
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/bacula.spec (or whatever directory
structure your platform uses) to set platform options and
select whether to build MySQL support. To build on Fedora
Core use the rh9 build define.

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*Future Platform Support*
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RedHat 9 and perhaps 8 will continue to be supported for the
forseeable future. Whitebox Enterprise Linux support is
added with this release as I intend to migrate my server
(currently RH8) to that platform. Future releases will probably
add SuSE packages. I may also continue to provide RH8 packages 
by setting up a box for that purpose.

There is no intent to provide Fedora Core packages as neither
one of us wishes to get on that upgrade treadmill, however I
expect the SRPM will continue to build on that platform for some time.

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*Rescue script package added*
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This release officially includes the rescue package.
This package installs scripts for disaster recovery and 
builds rescue floppy disks for bare metal recovery. This 
package includes tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/, by 
Tom Oehser, [email protected]) to provide a tool to build a 
boot floppy disk. This package is platform independant as
it only includes shell scripts and a static file daemon.
The tomsrtbt package requires the libc5 compat libraries, 
available at
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/libc5-5.4.38-3.i386.rpm

You need to have the bacula-sqlite, bacula-mysql or 
bacula-client package for your platform installed and 
configured before installing this package. This is not a
Requires for the package because I haven't determined how
to do an "OR" in a Requires tag. If anyone knows please 
drop me a line. Failing that the next release will probably
see all of the client files removed from the bacula-sqlite
and bacula-mysql packages making them true server packages
and requiring install of bacula-client on servers.

After installing the scripts, rpm will run the getdiskinfo 
script to create the necessary information for your installation. 

To create a boot floppy using this information run
./make_rescue_disk --copy-static-bacula --copy-etc-files
from the /etc/bacula/rescue directory.

To recreate the disk information run
./getdiskinfo 
from the /etc/bacula/rescue directory.





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