On Friday 07 April 2006 13:04, Guy Dallaire wrote:
>2006/4/7, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>:
>> I'm told that the 1.14 versions from RH, if fresh, have the
>> backported patches that fixed 1.14 so it worked. I think I'd make a
>> softlink & see if it works.
>
>Yes the 1.14 fromRH is supposed to work, but I don't see how a symlink
>would resolve the issue ? Or I do not understand what you mean by a
>symlink... a symlink to the 1.14 package named tar-1.15 ? How would
>you create that and how would it fix the problem ???
>
>In any case, installing amanda from source is VERY EASY and you have a
>lot more options that using a pre-packaged RPM and I would siggest the
>OP to to that instead. (And install the latest gnu tar from source as
>well, telling amanda to use the compiled gnu-tar instead with the
>--with-gnu-tar configuration switch...)
This is a classic example of why we're not always in favor of the
distros packaging system, in this case rpm. One of the guy's who
thinks he's God or something has as much as told me to use the rpms or
at least some other distro since I make too much noise on his favorite
list. Over stuff that doesn't work, and isn't ever going to work right
as long as the rpm builder isn't familiar with how the software he is
trying to package is actually supposed to work. I pointed it out to
him that amanda was an example of busted rpms from the gitgo 7+ years
ago, but he was adament the he was correct & I'm a blithering idiot.
At that point I told him he needed a shorter horse, the one he was on
was obviously way too tall. (with possible oxygen deprivation effects
readily apparent to most observers.)
I may not be the sharpest tack in the box, but those that do know me,
know me as an abrasive old coot, who is right way more than just
rolling the dice would account for.
Now I've installed FC5 on another hard drive, and for all the fancy
foomatic based automatic driver generation it uses, the output of my
C82 in its gold standard mode, 1440x1440 dpi, isn't fit to line the
floor of the canary cage I haven't had for 50+ years. I can sell the
output of the setup I have on this FC2 install, and have quite a few
times... I think that should settle the argument, but this guy is
seemingly immune to the truth if it isn't company approved truth.
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