>In amanda, the configuration file seems to think that the user isn't
>smart enough to manually specify a compression program :-) ...
No offense, but some of them aren't :-).
And that's not necessarily bad. Some software I install I just want to
get up and running without spending forever trying to figure out how to
configure it.
Not that Amanda is the poster child for ease of installation :-).
>I'd much
>rather specify "gzip -9" and "gunzip" than specify "best compression"
>or whatnot. ...
But that's not the point. By adding a layer of abstraction, Amanda can
deal with the various nastiness of what command line arguments are needed,
what file suffix is used, etc.
Look at all the incredible amount of effort it has to put in to deal
with "program dump".
>Are there any plans to support this? ...
If bzip2 takes exactly the same arguments as gzip, you can do this
right now:
make distclean
env GZIP=/path/to/bzip2 ./configure ...
make
su root -c "make install"
In the long term, there is a FILTER-API proposal to take care of this
at run time. Feel free to contribute to that effort.
>-- John
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
