Hello, in CentOS and EPEL you only find outdated clients, in EPEL there's only 2.4.4, in CentOS there's the RHEL-supported 5.0.0. that unfortunately has a lot of bugs open.
If you want to use 5.2.6 you need to use the repository at: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/README.txt These are backported rawhide packages that I mantain and will be the default in next Fedora releases and (I think) RHEL 7+ releases. Right now the rationale behind the libraries is quite handy and I don't see it as a problem or as a "hack". mysql-libs, sqlite-libs and postgresql-libs packages weight all together less than a single Mbyte of packages and there's no harm in having them installed and they don't pull in any daemon or program. If you look at your package base in your systems you find a *lot* of libraries you don't need but are there if you enable some configuration on packages. Is that single mb a problem? Of course each and every distribution cannot be perfect for everybody, so if you have a particular need to avoid that 200k libs subpackage I think it's better if you compile Bacula on your own as suggested and disable the backends you don't need. That's the cool thing about Open Source. Or as an alternative you can buy the supported Enterprise Edition. Last time I used it, it was using conflicting packages that only used one backend at a time but had its drawbacks anyway as all daemons were in a single package, so you had them installed even if you didn't need them. There was also a single "client" package" but that was bundled with the console as well. Right now the only thing you need to switch backend is to perform the following: # alternatives --config libbaccats.so There are 3 programs which provide 'libbaccats.so'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- 1 /usr/lib64/libbaccats-mysql-5.2.5.so 2 /usr/lib64/libbaccats-sqlite3-5.2.5.so *+ 3 /usr/lib64/libbaccats-postgresql-5.2.5.so Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: <choice> In Fedora 15 and 16, where the Bacula version is 5.0.3 and do not include the recent development about the shared catalogue library, the situation is worse, you have multiple packages for all the variants, and fortunately, we moved away from that. There were long discussions by mail and on redhat bugzilla bugs to get that sorted right. Here is the list of packages in Fedora 15/16: bacula-client.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-common.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-console.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-console-bat.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-console-wxwidgets.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-devel.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-director-common.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-director-mysql.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-director-postgresql.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-director-sqlite.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-docs.noarch 5.0.3-19.fc16 updates bacula-libs.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-libs-mysql.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-libs-postgresql.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-libs-sqlite.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-storage-common.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-storage-mysql.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-storage-postgresql.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-storage-sqlite.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates bacula-traymonitor.x86_64 5.0.3-28.fc16 updates Here is the list in F17+: bacula-client.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-common.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-console.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-console-bat.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-devel.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-director.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-docs.noarch 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-libs.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-storage.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula bacula-traymonitor.x86_64 5.2.6-1.fc16 fedora-bacula On top of this, if you're running a desktop, you probably have that mb worth of sql libs already installed in your system; mysql-libs is needed by hplip, gstreamer plugins, net-snmp and sqlite-libs is required by your beloved firefox. I also want to point out that the option to build all backend at the same time has been included in the bacula code especially for this, to ease the package mantainer task. Since I have some influence on where this will go regarding Fedora et al, I'm happy to receive constructive suggestions on how to change things to make them more appetible for everybody. Keep in mind all the packages are checked with rpmlint, fedora-review and all the tools pointed out in the Fedora package guidelines so permissions, runpath, libraries, compile options, etc. need to be properly set up and have more strict requirements than generic packages that run on multiple distributions. Regards, --Simone On 14 March 2012 09:29, Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:15:36PM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > > Not sure I follow, I'm on CentOS but isn't there only one Linux client? > > > I can't find any decent install procedures that don't come with other > > > software on top of bacula. > > > > > > > You will have to ask Centos how they packaged bacula. Each > > distribution has its own install procedure and packages its own > > version of bacula. If they do not offer a trimmed down bacula you can > > compile one yourself. The source code is easily available. > > > > John > > > > For our CentOS client machines, I usually add the epel repository, you > can then install bacula-fd with a simple > > yum install bacula-client > > (might be bacula-fd, this is from memory). > > HTH, > > Uwe > -- > > NIONEX --- Ein Unternehmen der Bertelsmann AG > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore (R. W. 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