On Oct 27, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Dan Langille wrote:

> We are going to be making some major changes to the FreeBSD port of Bacula.  
> Before we do this, I'm looking for volunteers to test out the changes.
> 
> This is a short list of the changes we plan to make:
> 
> - bacula-server will require bacula-client.  you cannot install bacula-server 
> without bacula-client
> - bacula-client and bacula-server will no longer install docs
> - all docs are installed only by bacula-docs
> - new port added: bacula-client-static (statically linked; so good for rescue 
> CDs etc)
> 
> Why is bacula-client now required by bacula-server?  A long standing problem 
> between the two
> ports was they each installed the same shared libraries.  We solved this 
> situation by making only bacula-client
> install the shared libraries.  This is why bacula-server requires 
> bacula-client.
> 
> This change to the shared libraries will avoid the continually reported 
> problems when upgrading
> Bacula on FreeBSD and not first deleting both bacula-client and bacula-server.
> 
> Watch this thread, and I will post a URL from which you can download the 
> upgraded ports
> and test them.  We'll give you about a week to report any problems.
> 
> Also, this is the place to discuss any issues with the above strategies.  :)

This was just committed to the FreeBSD ports tree.

http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=201212161632.qBGGWjZt011350 AT 
svn.freebsd DOT org

I'm about to test the results in a sandbox… if my portsnap update will ever 
finish...

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org


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