On Saturday 07 April 2007 18:21, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > On 4/7/07, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am sure you will get some responses that answer your questions, but two > > tips: > > > > 1. Read the upgrading sections of the manual -- there are two or three (see > > Upgrading in the index of the Development manual). > > > > 2. Realize that you are upgrading two database levels, so you will probably > > need to upgrade the database to 1.38.x first (probably manually) then do a > > 2.0.x upgrade. > > Thanks, Kern. > > I've done some digging and I have answered a number of my questions. > I've read that the tapes will be able to be read by the newer version. > I also found that Scott (and others) do still make the rpms and that > they're on sourceforge. I see that there is no rh7 rpm built though, > so I downloaded the srpm and tried to compile it with this command: > > rpmbuild -ba --define "build_client_only 1" --define "build_rh7 1" > rpmbuild/SPECS/bacula.spec > > It's failing, complaining of a build-time requirement of > libxml2-devel, yet I can find no libxml2 and libxml2-devel for RH7.1 > on the Red Hat archive site in the original release or the updates to > it. I don't know how to proceed. > > I noticed in the manual section on building rpms that there were > permission changes between 1.36 and 1.38. I'll watch out for that when > moving to the latest release, but was wondering if the rpms just take > care of fixing it if needed? > > I also see that the scripts needed to do the db upgrade yoou mentioned > are in an rpm from Scott, so I should be ok there. > > My main problem is building that rh7 client ... suggestions anyone?
Build from source. A site that I help administer has an old 7.1 machine with no CDROM (I removed it to add another hard disk), and I build everything from source. > -- > -ste > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
