bacula-1.34.5 rpm release

Update 6/26/2004 Redhat 7 packages are now released.

Hello All,

Yes, the RPM packages are finally out. Sorry for the delay, but I had
some issues in getting the creation of the consolehelper link correct
for upgrades of the bacula-gconsole package (CVS has the sorry tale of
my adventures in symlinking in a spec file if you want it to work with
`rpm -U'). I hope all is right now. For those 100 or so folks still
using Redhat 7 you will notice the absence of rh7 packages. I'm having
problems getting 1.34.5 to build at the moment, but hopefully they will
be published soon. I'll make an announcement one way or the other
shortly. Anyone so inclined to try and rebuild the srpm please let us
know if you succeed.

Bacula-1.34 RPM Release Notes
20 June 2004
D. Scott Barninger
<barninger at fairfieldcomputers dot com>

Release 1.34.5-1

This release incorporates a number of significant changes.

These release notes refer to the rpm packaging only.
Please refer to the release notes and changelog in the
tarball for complete information on all changes or at
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=247772

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* This rpm release contains some important changes from 1.32 *
**************************************************************

The platform designator (rh7, rh8, rh9) has been REMOVED from 
the package names since 1.32d as this was creating some 
problems. Hence, you CAN NOT upgrade existing 1.32d or lower 
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 and database 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 and database options.
You can also pass any of the defines on the command line as before.

Example: 
	rpmbuild -ba \
	--define "build_rh9 1" \
	--define "build_sqlite 1" \
	bacula.spec
This will build RedHat 9 packages with sqlite support.

********************************************************
* PostgreSQL support and database detection and update *
********************************************************

The 1.34 release introduces support for PostgreSQL packages. There
is now a specific define for building mysql, sqlite and postgresql 
support. Formerly there was only a define for mysql and having it
not set resulted in an sqlite build.

In addition, post-install routines have been added to detect an 
existing bacula database before attempting to create the database.
Previously this just ran and caused a harmless error message if a
bacula database already existed. As this error message may have been
alarming, though harmless, we now only create the database if none
exists.

The 1.34 release requires an update to the bacula database structure
from version 6 to version 7. A pre-install routine has been added to
check for databases older than 6. In that event the install will exit
with an error message indicating that the database must be updated to
version 6 before installing this upgrade. Scripts for updating older
database formats are available for download in the bacula-updatedb
rpm package. In the event a version 6 database is detected a
post-install 
routine will update the database after creating a backup file in the 
bacula working directory.

*************************
* bacula-client changes *
*************************

The 1.34 release adds the command line console to the client package and
adds 
a new package for for the gnome-console, bacula-gconsole. The
bacula-gconsole 
package requires bacula-client or any server package as a dependancy.
The
gnome-console is no longer included in the server packages so they may
now
be installed on servers without X or gnome.

This release adds superuser support for executing gnome-console. RedHat
rpms
now use (and require) the usermode package. SuSE rpms use the xsu
package. In
either case, when starting gnome-console a dialog box will pop up to
request
the root password.

To disable usermode support on RedHat:
1. delete /etc/pam.d/gnome-console
2. delete /etc/security/console.apps/gnome-console
3. edit the bacula.desktop file to point to /usr/sbin/gnome-console
instead
	of /usr/bin/gnome-console
4. delete the symlink /usr/bin/gnome-console

To disable xsu support in SuSE:
1. edit the bacula.desktop file to remove the gnomesu wrapper and
execute
	/usr/sbin/gnome-console directly.

******************
* Platform Notes *
******************

The 1.34 release provides official packaging support for SuSE. Packages
built
on SuSE 9.0 are provided and it is known that the srpm will rebuild on
SuSE 8.x and possibly 7.x. Feedback from anyone doing so would be
appreciated.




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