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 ???

I forgot to answer this one, see the manpage of ln, using the -s option 
in particular.

>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...)

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