Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula in Ubuntu 8.04 without TLS?

2008-08-20 09:42:59
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula in Ubuntu 8.04 without TLS?
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:42:00 -0400
Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:
>> Landon Fuller wrote:
>>> On Aug 18, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Philipp Geschke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi List,
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody confirm that Ubuntu seriously compiled Bacula in 8.04
>>>> without TLS after having it enabled in 7.10?
>>>>
>>>> Or am I just being dumb?
>>> Debian upstream disabled it:
>>>
>>> README.Debian:
>>>     bacula (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
>>>
>>>     * SSL/TLS has been disabled in this version of Bacula due to licensing
>>>      concerns.  See README.Debian and the thread at
>>>      http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00144.html for more
>>>      details.
>>>
>>> NEWS.Debian
>>>     Due to licensing concerns (see NEWS.Debian), SSL/TLS is disabled in
>>> current
>>>     Debian builds.  This disables both encryption for the on-the-wire
>>>     protocol as well as encryption of the backed-up data.
>>>
>>> Kern specifically allows linking against OpenSSL in the Bacula, and has
>>> removed any GPL code that can not contain this exception:
>>>     As a special exception to the GPLv2, the Bacula Project gives
>>>     permission to link the code of its release of Bacula with the OpenSSL
>>>     project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it that use
>>>     the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute the linked
>>>     executables.  You must obey the GNU General Public License in all
>>>     respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL".
>>>
>>> I guess Debian considers the OpenSSL license and the GPL license
>>> incompatible, and removed support prior to Kern's changes.
>>> The whole issue is a bit droll.
>> This is why I like packaging systems which allow you to compile from source.
> 
> Why don't you recompile it from source then.
> 
> 
> apt-get build-dep bacula
> aptitude install libssl-dev openssl
> aptitude source bacula
> cd bacula-2....
> vim debian/rules
>     # (change the options to enable ssl tls)
> debian/rules binary
>    #it should now compile and pack all bacula packages
> cd ..
> dpkg -i bacula*.deb

FYI, it is not me that is having the problem.  :)


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