* Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com> [20080401 16:30]:
> 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.

well, that's what I figured after looking on the gtk site
but then something is amiss with the config stuff on my box
as I get this error message at the configure step:

./configure --enable-kitchen-sink
(ok no joke, I used '--with-user=amanda --with-group=disk')

...
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.2.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file
config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly
installed.
configure: error: glib not found or too old; See
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation for help

dpkg reports 2.12.4 installed:
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.12.4-2       The GLib library of C routines

??
jf

> 
> 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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