It's a bare minimum fix, and has problems. It has the minor one of requiring inetd for the server. Most server installations will also have clients, or other programs that will use (x)inetd, so it's no big deal.
However, I just tried to install amanda-client on a machine that had neither amanda-client nor any inetd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# pre inetd update-inetd-4.27-0.5--all [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install amanda-client Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: ecj-bootstrap Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: amanda-common mailx Suggested packages: gnuplot dump The following NEW packages will be installed: amanda-client amanda-common mailx 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Need to get 1478kB of archives. After unpacking 3777kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. As you can see, the dependency would not have been fulfilled. On other machines, where I wanted amanda-client, I have since installed xinetd, and they are mutually exclusive. But the whole inetd/xinetd situation appears to be a mess. Amanda gives you an xinetd file you just drop into place, no inetd setup. Contrairiwise, sendmail gives you inetd setup information and passes it to the inetd updater, but no xinetd setup. Then the sendmail folks tell you if you want to use xinetd you have to translate the setup yourself. I suspect this is a debian policy issue, not an Ubuntu issue. But it's frustrating and user hostile. Red Hat solved the problem by fiat: it's xinetd, period. At this point, I'm not going to push any further. If you want to resolve this as "won't fix" go ahead. If you want to continue with it, I'll be glad to help test. -- amanda does not require xinetd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124796 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
