>>>>> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:37:56 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:
> 
> On 03/09/10 19:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> > On 10.3.2010 1:37, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> >> Is there a yum-way (or RPM) to install bacula-director and 
> >> bacula-storage on a system when the database (Pg) is on another system?
> >>
> >> Yum keeps wanting to install postgresql-server as a dependency.
> >>
> > 
> > This is apparently a question on CentOS developers. Bacula project has
> > no powers into the matter.
> > 
> > Easy solution: install the postgresql but disable it. Takes some disk
> > but otherwise harmless.
> > 
> > Pretty dumb dependency though.
> 
> Actually, no, it's not.  Both of those packages have dependencies upon,
> or include tools that have dependencies upon, the applicable database
> package.  In the normal case, you hopefully won't need them, but if (for
> instance) you ever need to regenerate a catalog from volumes with bscan,
> well ....  bscan needs to be able to talk to the DB.

Which server things does it need?  It should be just the client libs and tools
like psql (assuming they are packaged separately from the server).

__Martin

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