Re: Release of Amanda-6.2
2008-04-01 16:20:04
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> * Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> [20080401 14:33]:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 6.2.
>
> It takes courage to release on April 1st!
> And I suppose this is meant to be 2.6 :)
>
> I'd love to test but how to I get glib > 2.2.0? On my production
> systems running Debian/Etch all I have is glib 2.12.4-2 and I don't
> see any backport for it. Even Sid is at 2.16 I believe.
2.12 is newer than 2.2. Think of it as twelve vs. two instead of
one two vs. two.
Debian sarge even has libc 2.3.2, which is greater than 2.2.0.
Frank
>
> Where can I get a version that meets the requirement to compile
> amanda-2.6 so that I can start testing it in my environment?
>
> jf
>
>>
>> Source tarballs are available from
>>
>> * http://www.amanda.org
>> * https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120
>>
>> Binaries for many systems are available from
>>
>> * http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php
>>
>> Documentation can be found at
>>
>> * http://wiki.zmanda.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Here's a list of the changes for release 6.2 (from the NEWS file):
>> Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.
>>
>> * configure --disable-shared doesn't work because perl modules
>> require shared libraries. Use configure --with-static-binaries to
>> build statically linked binaries.
>> * New --enable-kitche-sink flag: calls the plumber when you kitchen
>> sink is backed up.
>> * 'amverify' and 'amverifyrun' are deprecated and replaced with the
>> * new, more flexible 'amcheckdump'
>> * 'amdd' and 'ammt' are deprecated.
>> * Some Amanda files are now installed in new "amanda/"
>> subdirectories: libraries are now installed in $libdir/amanda and
>> internal programs are now installed in $libexecdir/amanda. If you
>> mix 2.6.0 and earlier version with rsh/ssh auth, you need to add
>> an 'amandad_path' to the dumptype and to amanda-client.conf.
>> * The amandates file, previously at /etc/amandates, is now at
>> $localstatedir/amanda/amandates. You may want to move your
>> existing /etc/amandates when you upgrade Amanda.
>> * New 'amcryptsimple', 'amgpgcrypt' - encryption plugins based on gpg.
>> * New amenigma - WWII enigma machine encryption. Super duper secure.
>> * New 'amserverconfig', 'amaddclient' - Initial Amanda configuration
>> tools these tools make assumptions, please see man page.
>> * Many bugs fixed and code rewrite/cleanup
>> o Speedup in 'amrecover find' and starting amrecover.
>> * glib is required to compile and run amanda.
>> * Device API: pluggable interface to storage devices, supporting
>> tapes, vtapes, RAIT, and Amazon S3
>> * New perl modules link directly to Amanda, to support writing
>> Amanda applications in Perl. Perl module are installed by default
>> in the perl installsitelib directory. It can be changed with
>> 'configure --with-amperldir'. * New 'local' security driver
>> supports backups of the amanda server without any network
>> connection or other configuration.
>> * Almost 200 unit tests are available via 'make installcheck'.
>> * Amanda configuration file changes
>> o amanda.conf changes
>> + flush-threshold-dumped
>> + flush-threshold-scheduled
>> + taperflush
>> + device_property
>> + usetimestamps default to yes
>>
>>
>> Jean-Louis Martineau
>>
>
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