On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:26:47PM -0400, Jay Fenlason wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:32:14AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> > Kevin Passey wrote:
> > >Is there a way of keeping Amanda up to date thru RHN.
> > It's up to RH to follow the development of Amanda.
> > They don't seem to follow it "on the bleeding" edge.
...
> I'm the Red Hat Amanda maintainer.  There's only one of me, and I
> maintain too many packages to spend much time on any one of them.
> I've got a list of features I'd like to add to Amanda if I ever get a
> chance, but time to do it hasn't happened yet.

It's very nice that there is a vendor-provided Amanda.

> So if you use Red Hat Linux, and you want Amanda 2.4.4, there are
> several ways to get it:
> 
> 1: Wait for the next released version or beta.
> 
> 2: Compile it yourself. 
.. from rawhide srpm maybe?

...
5:  Get a place like freshrpms.net or Fedora to do it. At least Matthias
Saou did express some interest at the time 2.4.3 was out and not in the
distribution yet.

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