Re: [BackupPC-users] New BackupPC server on Debian: which version?
On Thursday 19 Aug 2010 23:14:05 Rob Owens wrote: > You might want to consider learning how to do backports yourself, if > this is really important to you. Indeed. Backporting newer Debian packages to older releases is actually quite easy. See pbuilder: http://www.tolaris.com/2009/03/31/backporting-debian-packages-with-pbuilder/ I backported BackupPC from Ubuntu lucid to hardy the same way. The only real work in backporting comes when there is a new source release that hasn't been packaged at all yet. Regards, Tyler -- "Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget." -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] New BackupPC server on Debian: which version?
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:59:55AM +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hy Rob. > > > BackupPC has only a few dependencies, and this makes it > > fairly easy to install the Debian testing version in Debian stable. > > [cut] > > Thanks for your reply. > What about the future versions of BackupPC? Who know if they'll still > get backported to run on Lenny? > This is actually my only concern. > I don't think there's any guarantee about that. Currently, BackupPC is not backported to Lenny. However, the version in testing (Squeeze) works fine on Lenny. Also remember that Squeeze has just been frozen, so it'll probably be released as stable in 9 months or so (based on past freeze/release timeframes). > Or would there be an other Linux distro which could be used for a > "stable, still upgradable" BackupPC server? > You might want to consider learning how to do backports yourself, if this is really important to you. For some packages this is very straightforward to do on Debian. For other packages it's a lot of work. I have very limited experience with this, but in general I think the fewer dependencies, the easier it is to backport. BackupPC has several dependencies, but fairly few which require a specific version of a dependency package. -Rob -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] New BackupPC server on Debian: which version?
Hy Rob. > BackupPC has only a few dependencies, and this makes it > fairly easy to install the Debian testing version in Debian stable. [cut] Thanks for your reply. What about the future versions of BackupPC? Who know if they'll still get backported to run on Lenny? This is actually my only concern. Or would there be an other Linux distro which could be used for a "stable, still upgradable" BackupPC server? Many thanks, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 URL: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail: fla...@piramide.ch -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] New BackupPC server on Debian: which version?
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:46:45AM +0200, Boniforti Flavio wrote: > Hello all. > > As from the subject line, which Debian version do you suggest to set up > for using BackupPC? > My actual server is on "testing", would not want to stick to a version > which is "freezed" because I'd miss the future releases of BackupPC. > BackupPC has only a few dependencies, and this makes it fairly easy to install the Debian testing version in Debian stable. $ apt-cache policy backuppc backuppc: Installed: 3.1.0-4lenny3 Candidate: 3.1.0-4lenny3 Version table: 3.1.0-9 0 190 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages *** 3.1.0-4lenny3 0 990 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ sudo aptitude install backuppc/testing wants to install libwbclient0, samba-common, and smbclient from the backports.org repo onto my Lenny system. -Rob -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] New BackupPC server on Debian: which version?
Hello all. As from the subject line, which Debian version do you suggest to set up for using BackupPC? My actual server is on "testing", would not want to stick to a version which is "freezed" because I'd miss the future releases of BackupPC. Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 URL: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail: fla...@piramide.ch -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
