Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 7 May 2019 22:27:14 + Chris Hassell wrote: > There we go! Debian 9.0 looks good to me. > > % bash autogen && ./packaging/deb/buildpkg Chris, I am going to try duplicating your work. One thing I have learned is to build test environments on throwaway machines. I now use virtual

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 May 2019 01:37:03 pm Debra S Baddorf wrote: > > On May 7, 2019, at 9:38 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > echo "!! Warning !!!" > > echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the" > > echo "user amanda, but must be installed by

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-08 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "CH" == Chris Hassell writes: CH> Most build systems these days recommend building entirely as a CH> normal user (even Debian?) and the chown-and-other-ops are done with CH> careful setuid privileges given to the build system. CH> RPM and rpmbuild have been doing it that way for years.

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-08 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Chris Hoogendyk [20190508 14:08]: > I've always done all the configure, build and install from root, > using the --with-user=amanda and --with-group=amanda in configure. > Then all my backup and administrative operations are done as user > amanda. No problems going back 15 years or so. > > On

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-08 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
I've always done all the configure, build and install from root, using the --with-user=amanda and --with-group=amanda in configure. Then all my backup and administrative operations are done as user amanda. No problems going back 15 years or so. On 5/8/19 1:37 PM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: On

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-08 Thread Chris Hassell
Most build systems these days recommend building entirely as a normal user (even Debian?) and the chown-and-other-ops are done with careful setuid privileges given to the build system. RPM and rpmbuild have been doing it that way for years. On 5/8/19 11:37 AM, Debra S Baddorf wrote: > >> On May

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-08 Thread Debra S Baddorf
> On May 7, 2019, at 9:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > echo "!! Warning !!!" > echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the" > echo "user amanda, but must be installed by user root." Is this actually still true? I always configure

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 May 2019 01:48:03 am Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 12:01:42AM +, Chris Hassell wrote: > > I don't allow a script to alter the repo unless it's in big neon. > > ... > > > It does (if I recall correctly) require a user "amandabackup" to > > exist, but that's all.

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 12:01:42AM +, Chris Hassell wrote: > I don't allow a script to alter the repo unless it's in big neon. > ... > > It does (if I recall correctly) require a user "amandabackup" to exist, but > that's all. The user 'amanda' (?), not so sure if that's made in the build

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 May 2019 08:01:42 pm Chris Hassell wrote: > I don't allow a script to alter the repo unless it's in big neon. > > This is (btw) all placed in github ... so the actual clone is 'git > clone'... and its mighty fast. Far faster than a subversion copy or > even a zip file. I'd just

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 May 2019 08:01:42 pm Chris Hassell wrote: > I don't allow a script to alter the repo unless it's in big neon. > > This is (btw) all placed in github ... so the actual clone is 'git > clone'... and its mighty fast. Far faster than a subversion copy or > even a zip file. I'd just

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-07 Thread Chris Hassell
I don't allow a script to alter the repo unless it's in big neon. This is (btw) all placed in github ... so the actual clone is 'git clone'... and its mighty fast. Far faster than a subversion copy or even a zip file. I'd just try the below if you're okay with that. (Where in anywhere is

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 May 2019 06:27:14 pm Chris Hassell wrote: > There we go! Debian 9.0 looks good to me. Who were you? I always do this as amanda, sudo -i (enter pw, become root, then "su ananda -c "./gh.cf", which builds it as amanda. When its done with no errors. then I'm still root, and root

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-07 Thread Chris Hassell
There we go! Debian 9.0 looks good to me. % bash autogen && ./packaging/deb/buildpkg and then [magic happens] ~/src/amanda #0$0 [..manda:3_5[origin/3_5:+4]]@DEB9$ ls -l *.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 hassell hassell 1298368 May 7 16:10 amanda-backup-client_3.5.1.git.507ad0ab-1Debian99_amd64.deb

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 06 May 2019 12:14:54 pm Chris Hassell wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a major advocate for OSS in general here at Zmanda/BETSOL. I'm > interested in giving a full-voiced support to the community of those > who know Amanda works well for them.   Opinions may vary and projects > fork for all

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-06 Thread Chris Nighswonger
+1 ... On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:25 PM Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:25 PM Chris Hassell > wrote: > >> I'm a major advocate for OSS in general here at Zmanda/BETSOL. I'm >> interested in giving a full-voiced support to the community of those who >> know Amanda works well

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-06 Thread Chris Hassell
Hello, I'm a major advocate for OSS in general here at Zmanda/BETSOL. I'm interested in giving a full-voiced support to the community of those who know Amanda works well for them.   Opinions may vary and projects fork for all reasons or no reason (as everyone has a right to) but I hope to

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 March 2019 02:40:56 pm Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 20.03.19 um 18:53 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > The sudden silence from JLM did beg for the question to be asked, > > and I'm fairly famous for that, so it was mentioned. I hope you are > > well these days Dustin. I had to have a

RE: if to fork Amanda

2019-03-27 Thread Chris Hassell
> -Original Message- > From: Stefan G. Weichinger > So you suggest skipping my try to svn2git here? Does that mean that you will > come up with new patches etc in github and plan to sync those over to the > betsol/sourceforge-svn-repo? [Chris Hassell] Actually I am using the git-svn

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-03-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 25.03.19 um 22:53 schrieb Chris Hassell: > Hi all, > > Actually here at BETSOL I'm tasked with getting changes from > github-git converted into SVN commits. > > Git at Github should be the main repo AFAIK. It's been a bit quiet > too long to treat it like the back end of the master-slave.

RE: if to fork Amanda

2019-03-25 Thread Chris Hassell
nal Message- > From: owner-amanda-hack...@amanda.org hack...@amanda.org> On Behalf Of Chapman Flack > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:15 PM > To: li...@xunil.at; amanda-users@amanda.org > Cc: Amanda Hackers ; Ashwin Krishna > > Subject: Re: if to fork Amanda > > On 3/25/19

Re: if to fork Amanda

2019-03-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.03.19 um 18:53 schrieb Gene Heskett: > The sudden silence from JLM did beg for the question to be asked, and I'm > fairly famous for that, so it was mentioned. I hope you are well these > days Dustin. I had to have a pacemaker installed back in January. I > guess its a sign of the 84