Jari Fredriksson schrieb: > Ralf Gross wrote: > > > >I'm running bacula on a debian sarge system. The current debian bacula > >version is 1.36.3-1, even in unstable. Are there any more recent > >backports for bacula (I didn't find anything more recent on > >www.apt-get.org)? > > > >I don't want to build bacula from source, but as I'm just starting to > >set up the bacula server, it would be nice to begin with fresh > >release. > > > > I'm not sure, but I have though that updating software like backup may be a > pain for a linux distribution maintainer, because of the work needed in > upgrades. Debian updates usually run automatically without user > intervention, but changes like in bacula 1.36->1.38 need alter in the > database.. Propably not easy to do w/o user intervention safely. In addition > to that, each and every machine in your system must run the same major > version of bacula. One more pain for automatic apt-get updates.
There are other debain packges that need user intervention too, but I agree that it's hard to upgrade a package like bacula from 1.36 to 1.38 with an automated system. Nevertheless it would be nice for people that deal with a new install to have a more recent package they can use. Unfortunately, I'm not that familiar with building debian package system to accomplish this by myself. > Bacula compiles fast, I have decided to go source way, compile ones, and > install bits to all machines; manually. I'll start with the latest beta for 1.38.4 and see how it compiles. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
