Personally, I've had nothing but trouble with the bacula packages
distributed by debian. I've found the most prudent and quickest way to get
a working bacula installation in debian is to simply compile it from
source. Managing the updates manually is a bit more laborious , but by no
means a show stopper.
On May 10, 2014 9:44 AM, "Sergio Gelato" <sergio.gel...@astro.su.se> wrote:
> * Dan Langille [2014-05-09 19:32:52 -0400]:
> > > Who did the Debian packages in previous versions.
>
> The Debian Bacula Team; see http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bacula.htmlfor
> information.
>
> > That said, many projects have a build tool, such a poudriere, which
> allows for easy creation of packages. Doesn’t Debian?
>
> "Easy" doesn't mean correct. Bacula major version upgrades typically
> involve
> changes to the database schema, which Debian users expect the packaging to
> automate for them. I'd rather see this done correctly than quickly.
>
> If I were in a hurry to upgrade my installation of Bacula (on Debian
> stable)
> to the latest version, I'd probably start from the existing package,
> transfer
> the debian/ subdirectory to the new release, then work out what needs to be
> changed to make it (a) build, (b) pass regression tests. This is almost
> certainly a more productive approach than repackaging from scratch.
> At the moment, however, I've got more urgent things to do.
>
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