On Dec 18, 2012, at 4:31 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> writes:
>
> Dan> On 2012-12-16 17:25, Dan Langille wrote:
>>> On Oct 27, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are going to be making some major changes to the FreeBSD port of
>>>> Bacula.
>>>> Before we do this, I'm looking for volunteers to test out the
>>>> changes.
>>>>
>>>> This is a short list of the changes we plan to make:
>>>>
>>>> - bacula-server will require bacula-client. you cannot install
>>>> bacula-server without bacula-client
>>>> - bacula-client and bacula-server will no longer install docs
>>>> - all docs are installed only by bacula-docs
>>>> - new port added: bacula-client-static (statically linked; so good
>>>> for rescue CDs etc)
>>>>
>>>> Why is bacula-client now required by bacula-server? A long standing
>>>> problem between the two
>>>> ports was they each installed the same shared libraries. We solved
>>>> this situation by making only bacula-client
>>>> install the shared libraries. This is why bacula-server requires
>>>> bacula-client.
>
> So why don't you just put the libs into bacula-libs and have
> bacula-server and bacula-client depend on that being installed?
That is a good idea and I imagine we'll go there eventually.
I didn't do the background work on this patch. It came from acm@ who
submitted the patch. At present my main priorities are organizing BSDCan and
PGCon. I'll give any such patch serious consideration if someone submits it.
> Seems
> simpler and easier and lots of other packages do this,
Agreed.
> but I come from
> much more of a Debian back ground…
I won't hold that against you. ;)
--
Dan Langille - http://langille.org
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