Chris
Spent the last day or so fighting with amanda and sol 10...so here's an idea.
Is the gnu project "stow" still around? This is/was really useful in splitting
out stuff and bringing back to /usr/local.
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martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:42 PM
To: AMANDA users <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Subject: Re: Availability of Amanda Solaris10/Open Solaris package
Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Nick Smith <nick.smith AT techop DOT ch>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paddy,
>>
>> It's great that there is a packaged version of Amanda again.
>>
>> Why are you installing it /usr/libexec/*, /usr/bin & /var/lib/amanda?
>>
>
> I tried to keep the same location as Linux versions. See
> http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_packages_from_Zmanda_downloads_page
>
>> I don't mean to be a troll but there are many standard (sic) places to place
>> third party software on Solaris such as /usr/sfw, /opt/csw, /usr/local. I
>> know of several sysadmins who would refuse to install the package on the
>> grounds of lack of separation of OS and third-part apps.
>>
>
> If there is standard location for Solaris, please let us know. We
> would be happy to incorporate it.
>
>> Does anyone know what *Sun* recommends? Personally I'd go for
>> /opt/<something>/*, /var/opt/amanda/*, /etc/opt/amanda but that's a
>> *personal* preference before somebody flames me ;-)
Unfortunately, it isn't very standardized for third party software.
I prefer to stay away from /opt/sfw, because that's where stuff that Sun chose
to include in the Solaris 10 install goes. Patches from Sun also apply to those.
Sunfreeware, which I have used a fair bit, tends to go almost entirely with
/usr/local, putting things in /usr/local/(bin, doc, info, lib, man, share and
so on).
I've tended to follow Sunfreeware's precedence when I build my own stuff. Then
I can use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH, and crle to control how things get accessed.
By putting /usr/local/lib in front of /usr/sfw/lib, I get the things I've added
as a preference, but still fall back to what Sun did if I didn't "over-ride"
it. In Solaris 10 with the new T2 based servers such as the T5220, this is
particularly critical. Sun has provided a tie-in from their version of openssl
to the on chip cryptographic accelerators. Anything that is built pointing to
their libraries will get that speed boost (Apache, sendmail, Amanda). If I
tried to build that portion myself, I would either have to know a lot more
about the low level configuration or I would lose that acceleration. I'm also
playing with gccfss from Sun, which is optimized specifically for the T2 based
systems.
I should have feedback to the list soon about Amanda in this build environment.
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Chris Hoogendyk
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