On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:17:39PM -0500, Ron Bauman wrote:
> I needed to lock our ClearCase databases while dumping,
> so I wrap gtar with a shell script.  I use this script to configure amanda:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
     [[ snipped ]]
> 
> 
> It's a bit quirky in that the script has to be there before running configure,
> otherwise the check for gtar fails.

On the first client install of amanda I did, /bin/tar was not gnu and
/usr/local/bin/gtar was a bad version of gnutar.  The client did not
want me messing with either of those.  Instead I installed a good version
in /usr/local/libexec, where many other "am***" commands were going and
called it "amgtar" and specified that as gnutar in my configure script.
Since then I always do that and realized that amgtar can be a real gtar
or a wrapper with no change to my configure.

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