On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:17:20PM -0400, Jay Fenlason enlightened us: > > i am installaing amanda on a RHEL4 workstation. when using > > amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386.rpm from the zmanda site, > > it fails with: > > > > error: Failed dependencies: > > tar >= 1.15 is needed by amanda-backup_client-2.5.0-1.rhel4.i386 > > > > yet when i have searched for a tar >= 1.15 rpm i have only found rpms > > for RHEL4 going up through tar-1.14-9.RHEL4.src.rpm (this on rpmfind). > > >= 1.15 rpms are only available for SuSE, Mandriva, Fedora and Mandrake. > > > > is it possible to use an rpm from one of these other distros? what do > > other folks do about this? > > You could always grab the tar .src.rpm from Rawhide or Fedora Core 5 > and rebuild it on your RHEL-4 box. Or you could grab the amanda > .src.rpm, rewrite the tar dependency, and rebuild it. That's probably > what I would do. > > It sounds to me like a packaging error that the rpm doesn't work with > a version of tar that comes with the OS and is known to have been > patched to work with Amanda. But what do I know about packaging? :-) >
Maybe if *someone* would finish packaging 2.5.0 for FC, my instructions at http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~hyclak/casit/amanda/ would be applicable. For the zmanda packagers: The RHEL4 packages really shouldn't require tar >= 1.15. RHEL 4 will always have tar 1.14 with backported patches. Perhaps not the best idea, but that's their policy, so we have to live with it. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263