On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:17:20PM -0400, Jay Fenlason wrote:
> 
> You could always grab the tar .src.rpm from Rawhide or Fedora Core 5
> and rebuild it on your RHEL-4 box.  Or you could grab the amanda
> .src.rpm, rewrite the tar dependency, and rebuild it.  That's probably
> what I would do.
> 
> It sounds to me like a packaging error that the rpm doesn't work with
> a version of tar that comes with the OS and is known to have been
> patched to work with Amanda.  But what do I know about packaging? :-)
> 
>                       -- JF


thnaks to all who replied  8*>

you know, i have been doing backups here at our medium sized site for 
almost eight years.  i always built it by hand, and i'm pretty good 
at it.  however, we have this trend of systems spread (more and more 
different OS's to support), and my evil sadistic bastard of a boss 
insists that i go to using packages..

oh well.  what i did is to take a gnu tar 1.15 src rpm and 
rpmbuild --rebuild that, then rpm -U the resulting package.

speaking of building from src, i have been using 2.4.5 + split/span 
for my amanda tapehost for a while now, and am very pleased about it..

cheers,

chris

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