Amanda-Users

Re: amanda 2.5.0 : tar 1.15 required ?

2006-03-31 13:40:06
Subject: Re: amanda 2.5.0 : tar 1.15 required ?
From: Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>
To: Mailing List Amanda User <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:36:36 -0500
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:14:54AM -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan enlightened us:
> tar 1.15.1 is known to work well when Amanda. There are some versions of
> GNU tar that does not work well.
> 
> See GNU tar note in http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation#Dependencies
> 

That doesn't mean that 1.15 should be required by the spec file. tar 1.14
from Redhat works just fine 
(see https://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html)


> On 3/31/06, FM <dist-list AT lexum.umontreal DOT ca> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I try to rebuild amanda 2.5 with srpm from : http://www.zmanda.com for
> > RedHat Enterprise 3
> >
> > the spec ask for tar 1.15. I can easily change that but before that I
> > just what to be just that it is a requirement
> >
> > reg



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