On Thursday 05 September 2002 00:52, Chris Herrmann wrote:
>Thanks Gene! Hopefully you've answered my question without me
> needed to ask it :o)
>
>I'm assuming I need to upgrade tar on the client machine, not the
> amanda server...?

Where ever its actually being used, which I'd assume would be both 
client and server at various times in the backup nightly run.

>Are there any source tarballs of tar floating around? The tar
> located:
>
>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
>
>is 1.13.19
>
>which comes with RH7.1... there's an rpm for 1.13.25 but i'll need
> to upgrade some libs
>error: failed dependencies:
>        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3)   is needed by tar-1.13.25-4
>
>which I'm not keen to do unless I really have to.

The 1.13-25 version is on alpha.gnu.org now for about a year, but 
the tarballs of either will compile just fine on your machines as 
long as the developer stuff is on them.

FWIW, 1.13-19 is also reported to work well with amanda.  I was 
automaticly recommending the latest just because its the latest I 
guess :-)

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