Thanks, I just didn't want to OSX binaries to go down the path of the Windows
binaries.
There is a new Xcode command productbuild, but I've not explored how to use it
yet.
__Martin
>>>>> On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:46:26 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
>
> Hello Martin,
>
> Have you been talking to Dimitri? :-)
>
> Bacula Systems has no secret script for building Mac OS. It is done
> using the scripts in <bacula>/platforms/osx with only some trivial name
> changes that I personally made (e.g. Bacula -> Bacula Enterprise, ...).
>
> All Bacula Systems low level scripts (.rpm, .deb, ...) are published in
> the community version, with only one exception. The exception is the
> scripts to build Solaris packages, which were written by Marco van
> Wieringen. They are not released because his build "system" is too
> complicated (at least for me) and is 3GB+ in size the last time I backed
> it up :-( Some day, when I take a break from writing new features, I
> will rewrite it in a very simple way that should be smaller than 100KB.
>
> I wasn't aware that Apple has changed the package routines. All Bacula
> Enterprise binaries are still build using this original script, so I
> will request the build sysadmin to look into the current way of doing
> things.
>
> If you have any tips, they would be appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Kern
>
> On 09/08/2014 03:27 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> > Unfortunately the cake is rotten now :-) PackageMaker is no longer
> > supported
> > by Apple so the script doesn't work on OSX 10.9.
> >
> > Please encourage Bacula Systems to contribute a fix to this script back to
> > the
> > community version and build its binaries from that, rather than using a
> > secret
> > cake recipe.
> >
> > __Martin
> >
> >
> >>>>>> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:34:00 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
> >> The Mac OS X client for Bacula should be a standard Mac OS X package --
> >> a xxx.dmg file.
> >> Anything that is a tar or other form is not very professional. I am not
> >> sure what homebrew supplies, but if they have done it right it is a .dmg.
> >>
> >> The instructions for building it yourself on a Mac are in the Bacula
> >> source distribution in:
> >>
> >> <bacula>/platforms/osx/README
> >>
> >> Once you have the developer tools installed, it is a "piece of cake".
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Kern
> >>
> >> On 09/07/2014 04:06 PM, Paul Mather wrote:
> >>> On Sep 7, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 09/07/2014 07:33 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
>>>>> I'm interested in perhaps deploying this in my k-8 school, but I have not
>>>>> found a good tutorial of how to install it. Or if it even works right on
>>>>> Mac.
> >>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have some insights on this? My idea would be to back about 30 macs
>>>>> to an Ubuntu server.
> >>>> This would be a good way to setup Bacula. The Director, SD and catalog
> >>>> work well on a Ubuntu server -- I recommend Trusty (14.04). For the
> >>>> Mac's someone probably has made the binaries and distributes them on the
> >>>> Internet. Otherwise if you load all the appropriate build tools on the
> >>>> Mac, you can easily build the FD. Later this year, Bacula Systems will
> >>>> provide free binaries for MacOSX which should also help.
> >>> I've not used Bacula on a Mac, but I do notice that Homebrew
> >>> (http://brew.sh) has a formula for bacula-fd, which could be used to
> >>> install the client. Right now, it's only for the 5.x version (5.2.13),
> >>> though.
> >>>
> >>> I hope this helps.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Paul.
> >>>
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