On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:37:46AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> General suggestion (maybe I already suggested that sometimes):
> 
> Why not test for the version of tar inside amanda?
> 
> configure could test for it at compile-time, amcheck at check-time.
> Grep "tar --version", compare the result with a list of good and bad
> tar-releases, WARN if a known problematic version is detected.
> 
> Optionally add a parameter to turn that check off, for people who want
> to override that out of specific reasons.
> 
> Wouldn't that be better than relying on (new) users to research that
> information, possibly AFTER running into problems?

That's a great point!  It would also be great to have the relevant
versions more prominently displayed in the wiki -- currently the
relevant documentation is scattered in a few forum posts and mailing
list archives.

I'm swamped at the moment, so any help would be appreciated -- anyone
want to produce a configure.in patch and/or edit up the wiki?

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/